karpenter Loc: Headin' Fer Da Hills !!

We've Lived What's Called 'North Of The River'
For Over 25yrs, Here In KC
We've Never Actually Lived In The City Up Here
We Even Lived In Another Place
That Had A Creek In The Back Yard There Too
So We're Familiar With The Local Wildlife
And Never Has Any Come Into The Garden
To Help Themselves To Our Produce
Until We Moved Where We Are Now...

I've Had Problems With Sephora, A Fungus That Stunts Your Plants
And Blossom End Rot, Caused By Calcium Deficiency
I've Fixed The Sephora, And Dissolved Calcium Tablets
Gave All My Tomatoes A Big Drink, End Rot Solved
Now I Finally Have My Bumper Crop Of The Biggest Romas I've Ever Seen
I Took My Wife Out To See Everything, We're Very Pleased
The Next Day The Biggest One, Starting To Ripen, Was Gone
I Looked All Around The Ground, Not A Trace
The Next Day, Three Green Tomatoes Chewed Up On The Ground
More Of The Same For About 5 More Days
I Don't Know What To Do, Except Sit Out All Night With A Bamboo Cane
So I Get Pepper Sauce Out Of The House
And Shake It On Every Tomato, Fruit And Melon We Have
I Get Up About 4am, Fix My Coffee
Think I Should Use A Flashlight Off The Deck To See If The Hot Sauce Worked
3 Green Tomatoes Lying On The Ground, But Thy Don't Look Chewed Up
I Run Down The Deck Stairs, I Hear A Rustling Behind Me
There's The Silhouette Of A Bushy Tail, I Guess It's Our Cat
I Put The Light On It.... It's A Skunk....Looking Right At Me

Skunks Are Not Real Bright, And They Don't Think They Have To Fear Anything
I Know I Can't Swat Him With A Cane, So I Think 'Garden Hose'
I Run To The Garage, Turn On The Faucet, Set The Nozzle To 'Jet'
'Jet' On This Nozzle Is Like A Lazer Beam Of Water Shooting Out
So I Run Back To The Stairs, He's Still Just Standing There
I Put The Light On Him And Start Hosing Him Down
He Tries To Run, But Doesn't Know Where To Go
I Just Keep The Water Spraying Him Down
The Fence And Our House Forms A Little Corral Over There
So He's Just Running In Circles, Stopping To Spray At Me, And I Hose That End Down Too

He Finally Makes His Escape Under The Fence
We Have A Vinyl Panel Fence, And There's A Gate In That Corner
I Head Across The Wet Leaves And Grass, All You Can Smell Is Skunk
I Open The Gate, Because If He's Still There I'll Get Him Some More
He's Gone
So I Go Back In The House To The Bedroom To Get Clothes
My Wife Sits Up In Bed And Says 'I Smell Skunk !!'
OK, She's Awake So I Can Tell Her My Story
She Says, 'Who But My Husband, Would Do Battle With A Skunk In His Bathrobe'
I Do Not Smell Like Skunk, Not Even The Bottom Of My Feet
That's The Volume Of Stink In The Air He Tried To Get Me With

We Didn't Lose Any Tomatoes Last Night
I Hope Being Trapped And Soaked
Traumatized Him Enough He Never Comes Back
I Lost Some 15 Tomatoes To Him
Not Including Previous Years When We Didn't Know What It Was

Iliamna1

I used to have 3 Clumber spaniels. They'll eat anything. I also had a nice, fenced garden in which I had over a dozen tomato plants. The managed to get inside the fence an didn't merely eat the tomatoes;, they ate the stems, leaves, roots . . . the entire plants. They also did the same to the roses I grew at one end of the yard. Yes, they ate the thorns. None of this seemed to phase them as each lived to be over 12 yrs old.

karpenter Loc: Headin' Fer Da Hills !!

Did They Try To Spray You ??

Look At That Face:

Iliamna1

What an adorable face! Yep. that's what I used to raise. I also had cocker spaniels.

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

Good one