Mrs. Deer

When I went outside after dinner to work in the yard, I found a doe in the back yard. I figured she was the mother of the two fawns since she had a swollen udder thing going on, and I also figured they were in the back yard too, since she was awfully assertive about standing just beyond the gate where she could keep an eye on me. But when she did leave the yard, stepping out through the gate and hopping over the picket fence, I found that the fawns weren’t back there after all.

Then she strolled on up the driveway and proceeded to eat the flowers off of all the violas we’d planted yesterday in J’s planter box – and eating the flowers involved uprooting the plants, chewing on the tops a bit, then dropping the plants on the driveway. At least this meant I could replant them.

The weather has turned humid and hazy, as well as hot. It’s not very pleasant.