This deer doesn't chuck wood, he chucks my flowers!

Do you see the stems in these 2 pictures that have been nipped off? I'm accustomed to the daylilies being chewed up before they ever get a chance to bloom; but this year, they had hung in there for the longest amount of time without being eaten and I had great hopes for them. Evidently, I was mistaken in thinking that the deer might have gone to a different neighborhood. And, the geraniums! I always plant them because they were the only annual that the deer had always left alone. Shoot! And these deer are connoisseurs as well; they only eat the delicate tender buds, not the blossoms. I swear; I'm surprised you don't see them going for the little budlet babies in the strollers.

Well, the daylily is finally going to be moved inside the doggy enclosure although I don't doubt that the deer will climb over the fence. I did see a deer inside the enclosure 2 ft. from our house once. I saw it step over the part that I have cut down a bit so I can climb over easily to get to the garden, and I also saw it soar over the regular height of it when I started down the steps to scare it away. At any rate, I think people have fenced in backyards not only for their dogs and children, but also to keep deer and rabbits out. I have lost several hundred $$ on perennials trying to find plants that deer and rabbits won't eat to the ground.

Since I last posted, so many things have happened, though nothing spectacular. The main thing that took some time was babysitting Magi the Corgi and then setting up another blog with pictures of her. If you type "vandysview" into Google, you will see both blogs. This is a pulitzer prize site for Welsh Corgi pictures!

Then poor Big Brown lost the Belmont. I read all the blog posts on the NY Times blog "The Rail" and the consensus seems to be that either Big Brown needed his May steroid shot, or it was the heat, or his cracked hoof, or the way he was ridden by the jockey. I tend to agree with the latter - first go here, then go there, then don't go fast, then go fast until Big Brown just said the heck with it. I just wanted to run straight from the beginning.

Bill's idea for the Triple Crown is to require all the horses to have to run all 3 races so that they are comparing apples with apples. So, if you ran in the Kentucky Derby (no matter where you came in), then you can run in the Preakness, and if you ran in the KD and the Preakness, then you can run in the Belmont. Then we wouldn't have fresh horses coming into the Belmont as "spoilers." Horses that were distance runners only. Someone else compared it to competing in a triathalon: you can't compete in just the event that you are good in. You need to be able to do the whole ball of wax. Not a good metaphor.

Well as W.C. Fields said: Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. Since I always try to find a conspiracy in sporting events, do you ever wonder how much some people win when the favorite looses and a long-shot wins????