Oh dear, those deer!

I have been called a Bambie lover many times in my life, which I am. I am not a hunter and it makes me sick to see a beautiful dead deer slung across the hood of some car which is all too common a sight in these parts in November. BUT........when they start eating my vegetable and flower gardens I feel like getting the ole' Winchester 30-06 out and sitting on the front porch waiting for their big doe eyes to appear so that I can give them some lead poisoning!

They have discovered my gardens are good eating and are making their rounds every night nipping off more buds and leaves until some of my plants look like sticks. First it was my pepper plants that were all blossomed out, then my huge hostas, next my flox and last night they got my turtle back!

At this rate there isn't going to be much left. I must go down and check my fledgling orchard and see if there are any little apples left on the trees. The trees are still small so they can reach right up and snap the babies right off .

Now it's not for lack of food around here. The area is lush with clover and grass for them to feast on so why do they have to eat my gardens?! Do we have a connoisseur in the bunch that wants variety? Grrrrrrrrrr I'll give them a variety tonight that hopefully will deter them. One neighbor suggested Moth Balls and another one said there is something at the store that you spray on that has cayenne pepper in it. I've declared w*ar!

Thankfully some of the plants they must not like as they pick and chose what they want. The mallow is in full bloom now and they haven't touched that.

Or the margarite.



The coral bells have just gone crazy this year and are crowding out the sedum which I will have to move.

I got a nice surprise yesterday as Myrna over at Cherish the Word gave me the Rockin' Girl Blogger award! Yee haw! I've never gotten an award before so this is a real honor! Thanks Myrna, I enjoy your site too and read every post that you write! :o) Congratulations on your awards too! Now I'm supposed to pick 5 more to give the award to and I don't know if I can do that. I LOVE all of the people that I have met in this blogging world so I don't know if I can single out just 5! I'll have to give this some thought.

It's the 4th of July and we decided to play it slow today. We did some work around the barn this morning when Funsize was here doing chores and I gave Buddy and Skipper a bath. The other two need one too but two at a time is enough for me. Skipper is a bit hesitant about the whole thing but did pretty well today. When I think about what he must have gone through to be so skittish now it makes me cringe. Poor little guy is scared of his shadow but has come a long way in the four years that we have had him.

Now Buddy LOVES his bath. He even likes to drink out of the hose while I am spraying him down. He is such a big ham. Notice once again he has his snack while having his bath......

I love all the horse shampoo supplies that are available now. They are good enough I could use on my own hair if I wanted to. The conditioner is great and really makes their manes and tails shine and be tangle free.

Nick and Kipper decided to have a snooze in the nice warm sand in the arena. Of course they had to roll in it and get all dusty......

My FIL lives next door so we called him to see if he would like to go to lunch with us at the Muddy Rudder and he did. He lives alone so we try to get him out as often as possible, Husband takes him for rides in the evenings for an ice cream very often each week and he still goes to the office every day at 90 years old! He was asking me about what kind of camera that I use so I was showing him and snapped a picture of him. My MIL has been gone for about 15 years after a 10 year battle with cancer and we were reminiscing about her over lunch. We are so fortunate to have my parents living with us, FIL next door and Son and family on the other side about a 5 minute walk away through the woods.

The wind is starting to blow and it's clouding in so I hope it doesn't rain out the fireworks tonight. We need the rain but wait till after the show!