Thank you all so much for the heartfelt comments and emails regarding my Grandmother’s stolen engagement ring. Yes, it was insured but that doesn’t bring much consolation because it was that ring that my grandfather gave her all those years ago when he proposed. So far, no word on its whereabouts or on the thief that stole it from her hospital safe.
Yesterday, a reporter from a local news channel contacted me about the post. I declined a phone interview knowing that anything resulting in negative press for Walter Reed Medical Center would only upset my grandmother further. Even at 90 years old, she is still in charge.
Nana was released from the hospital again yesterday. Hopefully, she will recover enough to attend my sister’s wedding in three weeks. She is terribly upset that she isn’t fit to make it to my house for the bridal shower on Saturday. It has been a tough week for her, poor thing.
Speaking of the shower, that’s what I have been trying to get my hands around. Food, drinks, decorations, games, favors, gifts and house tidying have been my week. Oh, and the deer crisis.
The fucking deer, the very ones that we love and welcome in herds onto our property now and during hunting season, have gotten a little too comfortable with their place in the Petroville pack.
They are eating ALL of my flowers. My flowers that lie only two feet from my front door are being munched like a free for all salad bar.
Yesterday, I replaced the shredded pansies (again) and sprayed the whole freaking garden (that MUST look nice for the shower) with the smelly stuff they sell that claims to keep away deer.
We’ll see how it goes tonight. I swear though…if I wake up tomorrow, like I did today, and find that the deer lawnmowers went though my garden yet again, I may retire my non-violent principles.
That would be too much.
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Local news radio station has a guy that does gardening tips. He writes about deer frequently. Here’s one such article:
http://wtop.com/?nid=47&sid=1152236
As for punch, I know it’s terribly tacky, but I really like adding a pint of sorbet to a 2ltr bottle of ginger ale. Raspberry and mango sound particularly yummy to me right now. I must be hungry.
Good luck with both!
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I understand. It’s so painful to lose something that you hold so dear. Especially when it’s given by the one you love.
I can only wish that it’ll turn up sometime or lest, they catch the thief and hand over the ring. My fingers crossed.
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I don’t know of any good solutions to the deer problem, except to plant stuff that they don’t like to eat. Too late for that this year.
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I have heard human hair keeps them away. I supposedly live in deer country, but it is the freakin’ chipmunks (chip-punks-see my blog) that have me thinking sanctioning the use of force…
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I don’t know if it works, but they say if you put the hair from your hairbrush among the plants, they won’t eat them.
Hope they find the thief who stole that ring – the b*st*rd! Unfortunately, it happens in all of the hospitals across the nation. It makes me wonder what the world is coming to!
xo
LBC
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Maybe if you put a salt block (can get at walmart) out away from your flowers they will go for that and not your flowers. My husband uses that to you know.
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My parents had a deer problem at one time. They tried mothballs (putting them amongst the plants), dried blood (I have NO idea where they got it) and the smelly stuff you spray on. I seem to remember the mothballs were relatively successful at keeping the deer at bay. Good luck!
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I know zip about deer and have no punch recipes.
But I do have a 12 gauge you can borrow.
Can’t say I’m good for nothing!
Marigolds. Deer do not like the taste. Most low acid bedding plants turn deer off. Beware of planting high acid shrubs like azaleas, rhododendrons and camelias. They will think you’ve planted a buffet.
Regarding the interview, you did a classy thing. Looking forward to shower pictures.
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I would definitely keep an eye out at the pawn shops for your Nana’s ring. With the Meth problem, that is usually what is driving crime nowadays and those people don’t care JACK for any material possesion but their drug.
Go to a knowledgeable nursery and they should be able to point out some nice plants that are deer resistant. Or of course, Google “deer resistant plants”!
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So sorry to hear about Nana’s ring, what a horrible thing to happen to a person not feeling well.
And about your deer issue-it is obvious that y’all don’t hunt enough of ‘em. This season get your guns and plant your crops then sit on your front porch an ambush ‘em when the saunter up. Kaa Pow!
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I’m so sorry about your grandmother’s ring. I hope it makes it’s way back to you all someday.
Now about the deer. I have a fantastic solution – I swear by it because I live in the freaking woods and the deer no longer eat all my hostas or my veggie garden. Deer hate the smell of Original Scented IRISH SPRING. Seriously.
Cut the bars in half, put them in little mesh bags (I got mine in the wedding aisle in a craft store) and hang them on the trees all around where you want the deer to stay away from. You have to cover them with upside down tin cans or something otherwise they’ll melt away. (I use old sour cream containers that I made my kid paint green for a craft project. Cause I’m klassy like that.) Just poke a little hole in the bottom and hang the soap on the inside like a bell.
It sounds completely ridiculous, (and looks a little too) but I swear to you it works.
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We have a deer issue too, and they are fearless. They come right up and stand on my FRONT STOOP to eat my flowers. This year I just planted flowers that are supposedly “deer resistant” and so far we’re doing ok…
Good luck!
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You are a good granddaughter. I would have gone off to the newspaper man. And half of it wouldn’t have been fit for print since it would be all cuss words. I think you should skip the games at the shower. The guests will appreciate it.
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Kim, love reading about petroville, so i thought i’d pop in & tell you about Milorganite. I’s what we use in these here parts to keep the deer out of our gardens. It’s made from…get ready…human sewage…EWWWW, but it’s processed and all pasturizey. You run a bead of it around the bed and apparently they hate the human smell and stay out. We’ve had deer on our front deck munching on the yews. Have finally given up on a garden, not because of the deer but the darn rabbits!
I had a deer problem, which is how I ended up with my collection of 30 kinds of sage. Deer don’t usually eat sage.
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