Thank you for your patience as this site sat
neglected for a few months. Soon after setting it up, I realized
that I hated the blogging software associated with it, but it took me
awhile to get the time to reformat the site to ikiwiki (my new
favorite!)
A lot has happened with
our deer deterrents over the winter, which Mark
and I will post about over the next few weeks. For today, I'll
just regale you with a brief anecdote.
In December, our power went
out for two weeks,
and our deer deterrents stopped running. This was our first big
test since our noise barrier began to repel the four-legged fiends from
our garden over the summer. By the middle of the first day, three
deer were in the yard --- the first ones to set foot within the
perimeter in months. Luckily, most of the garden is asleep at the
moment, and the deer seemed most interested in eating the green Japanese Honeysuckle
leaves dangling from trees at the edge of our cleared space.
Still, I was very glad to get our electricity back and our deterrents
back online!