Realizing that we haven’t seen that woodchuck that used to hang out in our backyard this season (spring). I hate to think that we’ve lost reputation on Woodchuck Yelp but I’m afraid to go in and check, not after what the squirrels had to say about our birdfeeders on Squirrel Yelp. It’s just, you know, since the windstorm blew down a bunch of trees in the neighborhood last summer we’ve had plenty of wood to go chucking. And while there are other places with more ground than our yard, if they wanted to groundhog, we’ve certainly got that and no particular other plans for the ground.
I never had a conversation with the woodchuck personally, you understand. We just mostly knew they were around and eating the plant seedlings, so we had to put the plants inside wire cages. I guess this year’s seedlings would be happy not to spend their formative weeks in Plant Jail but you know how it is. You get a luxury like a woodchuck living in your yard and suddenly you can’t picture doing without it anymore.
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Did you update the 2022 pumpkin on your lawn?
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Nah; you know, you replace the battery regularly and those things will run for years.
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I can commiserate. Last year we had a whole family of young woodchucks eating our seedlings. I reinforced the garden fence with steel wire mesh, guard towers and machine gun emplacements — the whole shebang. So far this year have not seen any sign of the woodchucks. The squirrels, on the other hand, have been attacking the birdfeeders nonstop. I’m not sure what social media they frequent.
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Huh! Fascinating this should be happening to many places at once. Maybe the woodchucks have developed invisibility technology. This seems ambitious for them but I suppose it’s as ambitious for anybody.
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