Deer Battle Update!
Since I have included you all in our battle with neighborhood deer for the survival of our garden I wanted to let everyone know that as of yesterday the garden scarecrow is winning.
We worked in the garden Saturday and everything looks wonderful. Yes, it is amazing to me that our garden actually sits on part of our yard. Now we couldn’t get a good stand of grass to ever grow on this site . . . but you let me plant a garden on the same ground and grass has become uninhibited! Yes, it is thick as hair on a dog’s back and as green as …. well, grass. Yes, nature has a sense of humor.
I’ll keep you posted.
Peggy
Deer Attack!!!!
Well, the deer have struck! They have struck my garden of course! Yes, those cute, brown furry rascals with the bouncy white tails have discovered a liking for my tomato plants!*X!&#@
Now don’t get me wrong – I worry about our forest friends having enough to eat. Especially now that civilization is taking so much of their natural habitat, but I discovered about 7 or 8 years ago (when we last had a garden) that I drew the line at helping them when they had the nerve to eat the vegetables I really liked. Then, I lost every one of my field acre peas. They had eaten them all the way down to the plant – but had left the plant there (I believe it was to mock me!). This time they must be hungrier because they ate the whole top of the tomato plant.
And how are we going to combat this deer infestation. Why by cunning of course – my faithful husband has set up a scarecrow with tin pan arms and legs to keep them moving. I’ve tried to get him and my oldest son to wee-wee around the edge of the garden to keep the deer away, but for some reason he has reservations about doing this in our backyard. He said something about the neighbors and a camera. His lack of personal sacrifice to help our garden is a little troubling . . . but for right now we’ll give the scarecrow a chance.
On a more civilized note I want to update you on new arrivals to the shop. We have an incredible 100% cashmere laceweight yarn from JoJoLand. With over 400 yards to a skein and with luscious colors at only $26.95.
There is also an 100% alpaca lace yarn from Cascade. Now get this over 400 yards for only $7.50 a skein. When the sales rep told me the price I didn’t believe her, but she was right. Our customer are buying this in multiple skein amounts for those large lace shawl patterns that take over 1,000 yards. When else can you do a shawl for less than $25.00!!!!
Or if you are thinking about a log cabin or baby afghan, or maybe the Great American Afghan we have restocked our Cascade 220 superwash in many, many colors and in all the colors called for in the Great American Afghan. Great summer knitting at a square at a time!
Stay tuned. The next post will contain news about our incredible June sales needles and yarns!!!!
Keeping you “in the loop”
Peggy
