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It was a bad year for gardens
It was a good year for squirrels
It was a bad year for your fruit
The first year we lived here our
neighbor who had also moved here from afar told us, "no two summers or no
two winters are ever alike here". His words are so true. This year, which could
have been a great growing year with all the spring rain and not too much
excessive heat turned out to be a very low yielding year BECAUSE of
the continual rain. Surely the rain didn't produce the bumper crop of
squirrels, BUT everyone is complaining that they robbed all the fruit
trees. Yesterday I spotted this one pear left on a young tree so I took a
picture and then picked it quickly. Usually we pick large amounts from our at least
40 year old tree. But all summer I've been tripping over the half eaten pears
the squirrels have been throwing to the ground, and now there are none left.
Well at least the Rose of Sharon's I transplanted in May and only watered once have done
well!!!!
Such lovely photos! The roses have done REALLY well...good job! I do love squirrells...here in our woods we have many small black ones. They are so cute! Ever though my husband calls them "rats in cute suits". Ha!
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