First-World Problems...

Remember the hanging plant that was half dead? Well, in the interest of frugality I tried to revive it by putting it into a bit more sun. That required it to be on the ground...out from under the porch roof.

And the neighborhood deer were quite happy with that! The little bastards ate the damned thing! And its previously healthy twin on the other side of the porch that I also put on the ground in the sun.

Granted, this is a First World problem, but it also exposes a serious problem in NJ (and other blue states). We have plenty of deer, very few predators, and incredibly restrictive hunting regulations. So the deer population explodes; they expand into the suburbs, eating their way through expensive gardens and wandering onto our streets and highways where they are killed, and also cause property damage and occasionally injuries and death.

The only upside to this is that some of those gardens and landscaping being destroyed are owned by whiny Karens who think that guns are icky, hunting is evil, and cannot conceive of the connection between that and the proliferation of deer.

posted by CBD at 02:00 PM

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