Do you remember the five-foot-high fence that Andy built around the Limber pine to prevent the deer and elk from destroying more of the bark?
It wasn’t high enough.
It reminds me of this comic.
gocomics.com/ziggy
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Being outside isn’t always idyllic.
August 25, 2016
What breaks my heart that sometimes our best intentions go to pot. Unbeknown to us.
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That’s certainly true of the U.S., but I’m afraid a lot of people still haven’t learned that lesson.
holy moly! had to have been a moose maybe? how could a deer or a bear do that without bending the fence over!!! but then what eats bark?
and there I thought it was looking SO GOOD! before the close up.
the cartoon is funny but tragic.
We’re pretty sure it was an elk rubbing the velvet off its antlers. We think it was a deer last time. That link includes a video showing how they do it.
I’ve seen people string an extra wire or too along the top of a fence to extend it’s effectiveness. Maybe that would work, but I see the poles are not very high in some places. What a shame, I love that pine!
We string a few strands of barb wire on the top of our chain link fences, but you’re right. It isn’t practical here. We love that pine too, and so do the deer and elk. It’s the only living tall tree in the area for them to rub their antlers on.
You win some, you lose some!
Yep. It’s best to have a sense of humor.
It’s a pleasure sharing your sense of humor, of wonder, …of resignation?.. about the world.
About the phone calls (your blog a couple of days ago): we also never answer the phone unless we know it’s a friend calling. Otherwise, we figure that if it matters they’ll leave a message. The result? We’ve been refusing to answer our Seattle phone for a few years now, and the telemarketers have mostly given up. We can be gone for a week or so and come back to find only 3 or 4 messages from the truly determined. My guess is that it helps never to “press 2 if you aren’t interested”; showing any response at all to a call tells them you’re alive and using that phone.
We still get a lot of phone calls that don’t leave messages — it would be nice if they eventually learned so the phone doesn’t ring so often. We will see, but I’m not sure the computers really care.
I’m with both Ursula and Rummuser