A recent rise in neighborhood thievery has caused a ruckus amidst homeowners. What started with the unprecedented first strike – a strawberry robbery of the most malicious kind – as it was the very first strawberry of the season, sadly of which we will never taste… um, has led to an increase in boldness among local wildlife. While the culprit of the first robbery was rumored to be a seedy rabbit seen fleeing the scene on an early Monday morning, the newest strain of crime has been leaf eating, and the deer are to blame.
The leaf-looting started the last week in June, when a bold doe, deciding that the lush forest on the other side of the street wasn’t enough, decided to eat the handful of leaves off our only maple tree and left it looking like a fragile twig sticking out of the dirt, naked and ashamed.
As if to rub it in later, they hit the Pink Lady…
They stripped the street-facing branches bare. Well, we got the deer-repellant loaded and ready – so next time they try eating our fruits and leaves and get a shock – I’ll be on the porch shouting, “How do you like dem apples?!”
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