We became official ‘country dwellers’ in the summer of 1980. From that time on we have had opportunities to interact with our ‘neighbors’. The first thing I learned about our ‘neighbors’ was that they were in charge! That means they do whatever they want to do. I first discovered their tenacity to do whatever they wanted to do when I attempted to grow pumpkins in our garden. I planted the seed and waited and waited for the pumpkin cotyledons to…..
As I type this blog the ground outside is covered with an early November snow fall and the winds are bitterly cold and gusting. I am calling a truce to the ongoing battle I have been facing throughout the spring, summer and fall with many of the critters that inhabit the same ground that I inhabit. All of us, the critters and myself included, think the area we inhabit belongs to us and not to anyone else. That’s why the…..
