Rabbit Come Back If You Ever Want To Try Again

 

This picture of our garden from two weeks ago shows that it is looking pretty good though our peas are a bit sparse and short thanks to the prior rabbit incidents. This last two weeks, we've been eating huge salads for our evening meals that come completely from the garden except for perhaps some cheese, croutons and a bit of salad dressing, my favorite being Dorothy Lynch's Salad Dressing. I started off making them in regular soup bowls but quickly upsized them to our bigger bowls and then went right to the dinner plate to hold all of the salad. Still, with four of us eating large salads every night, we aren't coming close to keeping up with the growing lettuce crop. First world problems I know.

While eating one of those salads, my wife happened to notice that there was a rabbit in the garden. I jumped up right away to shoo the rabbit off but I was troubled about how it had gotten in. I had been out there that morning mulching the far end of the garden where our sweetcorn, tomatoes and potatoes are and I distinctly remember plugging in the fence charging unit before coming in. But as I sat back down at the dinner table to finish my jumbo salad, it came to me. I had plugged the charger in but I had taken down the fence to gain easier access to mulch and after setting it back up, I hadn't attached the electrical wire that comes from the charger into the connection points on the fence. I hustled right out there and got the wire properly connected. I am amazed that in two weeks since the fence has been boasting 6000+ volts of electricity, in the three hours since I finished mulching, the rabbits had determined my defense was down.

As I came back inside the house, I couldn't help but belt out in my best Charlie Daniel's voice, "Rabbit come back it you ever want to try again and I told you once you son of a (gun) I'm the best that's ever been!" I hope he/she doesn't take me up on that offer.