RE: [gardeners] Outsmarting Coons (not)
Seyfried,Alice (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Wed, 19 Aug 1998 09:02:33 -0400
Hey, it was worth a shot! If she hadn't planted her corn, then there
would've been no suspense to see whose they got. I hope she gave you
some of hers.
My in-laws had the same philosophy as you. They live right next to a
farmer's corn field and could never understand why the coons went for
their little tiny plot of sweet corn when they could have an entire
field of field corn. I said to them several times, "would you eat
cardboard when you can have chocolate?". Never sunk in.
Alice
seyfried@oclc.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cynthia Mayeaux [SMTP:cmayeaux@traverse.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 1998 5:57 AM
> To: gardeners@globalgarden.com
> Subject: [gardeners] Outsmarting Coons (not)
>
> (he he he) Hi Alice,
>
> I've never been one to grow many edibles, usually just flowers for eye
> feasts. Anyway, I thought I'd be adventuresome and grow some corn
> this
> year. My neighbor who has battled coons for years had given up the
> fight
> and was not going to plant this year for the first time. I begged her
> to
> plant her corn anyway. My reasoning (you can start laughing
> hysterically
> now), I figured if she put the corn where the coons were used to
> finding
> it, maybe (just maybe), they wouldn't know about my corn and I'd get a
> few
> ears.
>
> Talk about living in a fantasy world. I'm still laughing at myself.
> The
> coons have gotten most of my corn, and hers is untouched.
>
> Cynthia (who after 3 yrs of gardening has figured out that gardeners
> are a
> delusional lot...<vbg>)
>
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