To grow anything, and get it to maturity, is maybe the biggest miracle ever! That of course is in Haarlem! I have now taken care of the moles by feeding them chappies bubblegum, the peacocks, cats, and other sly beasties have now I think realised that I wasn't having a play hour with my catapult, specially the poor peacock, who kind of leave very fast and very noisely on seeing me take aim!
I have not had any dead moles yet as a result of the latest sure to kill bubble gum diet I am forcing on the moles, but Ronalee already found two dead ones! That is a small miracle, as in all this years we never could find one of this creeper moles, and I don't even know what they look like. Well, I am full of hope that after one or two died the others would take the hint and relocate!
But, now I am again in a state of shock and horror! I woke up by grunting noises outside my window, that is at four in the morning, to find the big white and brown pig nuzzling up the soil in one of my flower beds. I had it in my place the previous day, but then it was content to eat the acorns, and I couldn't get it to leave, me of course being scared after Kevin bacon, Jan's pig bit me, but it then it was content with eating the acorns, so I left it, and later it left on its own accord.
So at four in the morning, with a cold clammy mist covering the earth, I went out to see where the pig got in again, as I had closed the gate and secured it with some wire also, as the new gate that Danny made for me was waiting on me to put on a gadget to lock it! I tried to shoo the pig out by making the strangest and most scary noises I could master, but this thing was as friendly as my best friend, and came galloping at me grunting happy goodmorning wishes, but I took to my heels, the marks on my thigh from Kevin's teeth strong in my mind! Pig must have thought it a before dawn game as he followed me until I was safely inside my house!
When the first rays of sunlight started to chase away the mist and the darkness, I had already had two cups of coffee, and looking out I saw that the pig had left, I suppose to sleep off his nightly kapperjolle, so after checking that all was back to normal, I went out to see what the pig had done. I cried! And cried! All my young trees and shrubs that I had planted during the week were nuzzled out of the ground, as the pig supposedly looked for earthworms, or maybe he was after the bonemeal that I use when planting.
But that was nothing to the shock on seeing my onion field! About half of the beds were completely destroyed, the soil having been nuzzled up, leaving a scene of utter devastation behind, and I got completely hysterical, thinking of the beautiful plants that stood so beautifully the previous day, and all the hard work, and money that went into getting it thus far!