– I Think They Have Gone TOO FAR With PC! – &l

3/29/2012

Last fall the Wife-Unit and her oldest brother were making noises about not planting a vegetable & potato garden. I mentioned that if they didn’t I would take over the potato patch and plant dahlias. I asked a few times since last fall if they were going to plant a garden or not. I did not get a firm reply. All I got was: “Oldest BIL” is going to have knee replacement surgery and we don’t know how well that will go and what he will be able to do..

Lehper knows when “Not To Push” for firm answer. Lehper also knows that Oldest BIL will not be good patient. Lehper also remembers what his first impression of now Oldest BIL was. If you guessed that Oldest BIL(OBL) was Walt Disney’s inspiration for one of the Seven Dwarfs, “Grumpy”, you win the grand prize.

Lehper not surprised when Wife-Unit places order with Gurney’s. Lehper not surprised when Wife-Unit gets Oldest Son to rototill potato patch area.

Potatoes now planted in Potato Patch.

The “produce garden” is divided into three areas

They are a small area in front of the barn, a larger area in front of the clubhouse and an area behind the barn. These areas are outlined in red in the satellite photo below from Google Earth.

In the area in front of the clubhouse the six garden plots are framed by old railroad ties

Several years ago the OBL made chicken wire cages to cover the two smallest areas in front of the clubhouse to try to keep the critters from have a late night snack. Over the years the cages have deteriorated. OBL suggest I make some new ones.

Oldest Grandson(OGs) and I cut up some of the 1”x6″ boards salvaged when the fence near the road when the wood fence was replaced four inch PVC pipe for fence posts and “plastic boards’.

OGs and I put the frame for the first cage together.

A few days later I went to Home Despot for the chicken wire

I go to the area in the store where they have fencing. No chicken wire to be seen.

I go to the counter of the contractor’s area at the extreme east end of the store and ask for chicken wire. I am directed to the garden center at the extreme west end of the store. I still can’t find the damn chicken wire.

I go to the checkout counter of the garden center and ask the woman behind the counter where the chicken wire is at. I am greeted with a totally blank look. The woman has absolutely no idea what I am talking about.

She says CHICKEN WIRE?????

Just then another female worker walks up and says “Chicken Wire is back this way.

I follow her back to almost the far north wall of the building and there is the chicken wire is various size rolls. I pick up a four foot wide, fifty foot long roll in a plastic sleeve.

I carry it back to the front of the store and place it on the checkout counter.

The woman behind the counter looks at the chicken wire in the plastic sleeve and asks; “That’s Chicken Wire?”

I reply, “Yeap! That is what I have known it as a probably everybody that I know have called it for at least seventy years.”

The label on the plastic sleeve is POULTRY FENCING!

I think they are going too far with “PC”.

I suspect that if I go to a pet shop for a fish tank I will have to ask for a Piscatorial Playpen.

Anyway here are the two Anti Produce Garden Consuming Critter Cages.

All three of our sons, their wives and the two Grandsons were over today for a rib dinner.

One of the DILs glances out the dining room window and says: “Look what is out in the yard!”

I look and make a mad dash upstairs and grab the Canon.

I manage to get back downstairs and out on the back porch/deck.

I managed to get a few photos of three Garden Destroyers that an eight foot high fence would be required to deprive them of a meal at our expense.

All three I believe are young, bucks and there antlers are starting to emerge and grow.