"brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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> "Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
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>> In article >,
>> Lin > wrote:
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>>> brooklyn1 sent:
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>>> > http://i40.tinypic.com/2q1wdqg.jpg
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>>> > http://i43.tinypic.com/2arx2r.jpg
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>>> > http://i43.tinypic.com/2e1d275.jpg
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>>> > http://i43.tinypic.com/2vn30r9.jpg
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>>> Dammit, Sheldon -- every time I think I've had enough of you, you send
>>> something nice like this. Maybe you are more in touch with your feminine
>>> side than anyone else could know. ;-)
>>>
>>> Thanks for that -- your trees are gorgeous.
>>>
>>> At what age do they get to break free from their cages?
>>>
>>> --Lin
>>
>> Prolly when the deer go off to play with the antelope and leave his
>> trees alone. Just a guess. Those are tall fences. :-0)
>>
>>
> Those fence posts are only 4'... the wire is 4' but sits about a foot
> above the posts so I have a one foot space to mow/weed underneath. The
> top of the fence is only 5', and occasionally a deer will bend the fence
> in a bit to nibble. Deer are not so small, they can easy nibble at 5' and
> when they rear up a bit they can reach 7'-8'. I simply have to have
> patience, deer stay about the same height, trees grow taller, slow but
> sure. In real life deer don't play with antelope... all animals are
> racist.
You can always tell when there are deer around a property -- well, cows too.
Everything is pruned so neatly from the bottom. Thanks for the Mother's Day
wishes.
Janet