As some of you know, I’m trying to get an orchard growing here at Nogglestead. This year, I planted 3 apple trees, a pear tree, and when they got really cheap, 2 peach trees. Of course, I know this is a very deer heavy area, as the trees in the front are all buck rubbed and the trees in the back tend to get bark removed.<\/p>\n
So I bought some fencing to put around the trees, and I procrastinated until such time as the apple trees were pretty chewed. Let’s face it, there’s more tar on those sticks now than on my driveway.<\/p>\n
So I posted on Facebook, because I fancy myself a funny guy:<\/p>\n
Brian J. Noggle would like to remind the fruit-eating deer in the neighborhood that they might survive gun season, but it’s always baseball bat season in Noggle’s orchard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Haw, haw.<\/p>\n
Except a slight acquaintance, a friend of the family from 20 years back, responded:<\/p>\n
No animal does not need to die becuase there are hungry..You need to think twice before anything else.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I expect he’s just asking me not to club any fawns for the fun of it, but deep down, there’s some right Disney thinking in that.<\/p>\n
I’ve planted an orchard because I’d like to have food in a couple years. I have a right to the fruits of my<\/em> labor, which means no one and nothing<\/em> else has the rights to that, okay?<\/p>\n
The idea that deer–wild animals–have some claim to my orchard rankles me quite a bit. Any assertion to that effect is based on Disney, probably made by a city person who get his or her food magically at the supermarket, and doesn’t have to deal with nature trying to prevent a man from growing it in the first place (much less harvesting a living beast for food).<\/p>\n
Gah. Just gah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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