cybercat wrote on Sun, 1 Mar 2009 14:54:57 -0500:


> "James Silverton" > wrote in
> message ...
>> Hello All!
>>
>> It seems to have been a tough time this winter for wild life.
>> The acorn crop for the tree-rats was small around here and
>> the deer have just eaten my English ivy nearly to the ground.
>> I'd thought ivy was poisonous but not to horn-rats it seems. They
>> haven't touched the Pachysandra or the Vinca minor
>> (Periwinkle) yet.
>>
>> "Mairsy dotes and dosy dotes and little lambsy divy" or
>> something!

>Shoulda put food out for them, James.

I expect the ivy will grow back and I can do without either type of rat.
My neighborhood is insufficiently rural to allow hunting and I suppose I
will see the deer again once the daffodils start to grow.

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not