It's sad watching your garden freeze up and die. I love having fresh produce right out of my garden. It's one of the reasons I moved to southern California, but it may be time to be moving out of here. It's just getting too expensive and crowded, plus my kid is grown!
I'm sure your kids love going out to country side. Where I grew up we always had deer, they lived within the city limits so they could never be hunted. Clever creatures. I remember one night one of our neighbors went out to scare the deer away from his garden, only to have a big buck chase him back into his house!
!DHEDGE
That’s funny, and is something I’d like to be able to say that I’ve seen. It must have been pretty terrifying for your neighbor. A charging buck is dangerous.
When I was a kid, a couple of bucks were fighting and chasing each other through the neighborhood. They ran down the driveway of the house across the street and when the first one tried to turn it slipped on the asphalt and slid right through the garage door, bringing the whole thing down. At least, that’s the story I heard secondhand.