Written while waiting for takeoff Tuesday night

[elainegrey]

On my way to Ohio. 8 pm flights seem to be the way to go. Not only is it direct, but there was no line at security, and the plane is maybe half full. Yippee!!

Sunday I did get the rest I needed. My throat healed up, antihistamines made a difference, and all the other aches ... Well they don't seem as significant.

Yesterday & today I saw deer. I think I can identify two does by markings. One has a crooked ear, the other a white mark - a scar I would guess - on her right hip. Each day I have seen a doe& fawn. It seems plausible that they were the Same pair today & yesterday. Oh Monday a young buck came through as well.

I find it curious that I hadn't seen deer in daylight for a long time. Then they seemed to get active again.

They are nibbling at the garden but today's WRATH is reserved for the squirrel. I've been watching my tomato volunteer #2 set nice large fruit- and today I saw a squirrel near the raised bed . At lunch I went out to find half Eaten green tomatoes scattered under the plant.

FlE.

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[randomdreams]

Whoah. I don't think I've ever had a squirrel mess with my tomatoes. That's infuriating!

[elainegrey]

Oh, i had a roof garden in Philadelphia years ago. Squirrels were the bane of my tomatoes. I managed to get one close to "done" by watering with water steeped with red pepper flakes. But one day i didn't get the capsicum coating out after a rain and the next morning i saw the culprit leaping from the roof to the tree with tomato in hand. I cried out "stop thief" before thinking how it would sound on a early Sunday morning.