along comes the evil rodent

[jinian]

I didn't post on Sunday about the wonderful time I had poking about in woods almost exactly like my childhood woods, because I was too busy planting my new salvaged-plant friends. I did some sheet mulching and put in a bunch of nice little ferns (more sword ferns, more lady ferns, new-to-the-yard deer ferns) and huckleberry bushes and one wee bleeding heart, yay! Since there were bulbs I hadn't planted yet, I put in the shade-tolerant pulchella violacea tulips next to a lovely rotting log I brought home, and surrounded them with moss. All was wonderful.

But today I got home from buying more mulch to find that squirrels had carried off some of my shallowly-planted tulips and mucked with the mosses. I didn't need to slay them until I found my sweet little bleeding heart dragged out and wilted. Squirrels suck, man! I wish I could let the cats out; they might not be effective killers, but they would at least keep the rotten tree-rats off the ground.

(Plant salvage was the best thing I've done all year. Six-foot-wide sword ferns! Salmonberry glades! Beautiful nurse logs! And the fact that there were a few invasive weeds in it just made it more like home.)

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[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

A varmint stole some of my stuff too, and I suspect a squirrel.