Friday, April 8, 2022

Storyteller's Journey

My Spring Break

In addition to being a writer, reader, and blogger, I'm an avid gardener. It was great to spend the last couple of weeks planting flowers, transplanting ferns in our bucolic property, and in general, working in our yard. (It needs so much attention!) 

Below is a brief anecdote of one surprising incident with "our friends" two weeks ago.

We realized that the blueberry bushes (that we love!) would look and do much better in another spot of our property. But with warmer weather, time was slipping away before it would be too late to make the transplants safely.

So, late last month, Michael dug two holes next to our deer feeder as the new home for the blueberry bushes. However, before we could make the transfer, our friends had other plans!
We'd already discovered how friendly and smart our black-tailed deer are, but we didn't know how curious they were. Their presence near the plant site delayed our task for some time.
Michael was finally able to resume his arduous work of digging up the large blueberry bushes with their long, stringy roots. He then transferred them across our yard, to the spot now vacated by the deer.
It's difficult to see the bushes in this photo, but they are now sitting peacefully in their new home. It will be interesting to watch the saga unfold, since deer love blueberries! But that was all part of our plan.