On Tuesday, Sep 16, 2003, at 23:04 US/Central, Sam MacDonald wrote: > Sunday night I was up late working on my sniper skills in DoD. It was > about midnight when I went up to bed, as usual I looked out the front > window, 3 dear nibbling around my rose bushes, a doe and 2 yearling! > I'm a little touchy about my roses, my wife loves em so I keeps em. I > opened the front door (understand I have a street light at the end of > my drive way) and they stayed!? So I sat on the stoop and talked to > them for a few minutes trying to get them to leave. They wouldn't go > so I sat some more until they wandered off. I'm talking about no more > then 30 feet. My driveway is 50 feet long and the roses are about 20 > feet from the street. Strangely enough I thoroughly enjoyed this post and it gave me a diversion from my work for a few minutes. I did some googling and found a very interesting article. http://doityourself.com/pest/gardeningindeercountry.htm Hope this helps! > > I guess I would call that a "near life experience". GET PICTURES! A chance to catch some wildlife with a camera is truly a rare thing. Especially an animal as nice to look at as a Deer. > I also keep a vegetable garden in the back yard and have had dear eat > all my peppers, I now have a 6 foot fence around my garden. > > Sam. > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- Ben Lutgens http://us-admins.com/~blutgens/ US Admins, Inc System Administrator / Server Gumby _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list