It's a problem because I'm trying to grow grass and new little sprigs of grass don't handle the foot traffic of giant 200 pound deer traipsing through my yard and leaving giant muddy holes all over.
While JT and I were at orientation last night, three rather large deer, and I do mean rather large, these deer would put the deer in Arkansas to shame. Maybe that's what happens to deer when they're not hunted often, they become gargantuan. Scared the bajeebas out of my babysitter and girls because it's daylight and they just show up in the backyard while the girls are coloring at the table. It would have scared me senseless, too. I can't imagine!
Well you know, the rain has been on my side the last week, and I have not had to pull out the three-four hoses and the sprinklers and such all week, so the ground is REALLY MUSHY. But my sprigs are looking fantastic, but the yard is just saturated.
Those blasted deer left a huge mess of a trail... Is it illegal to shoot a deer in your backyard? I live in a village and town, so would that be two places I would be breaking the law in???
Now to the geese. God love those Canadian geese. When is hunting season for those blasted creatures? I'm not a violent person, really, I'm not, I have a spouse who has every kind of weapon you could imagine, and rightly so, he is on SWAT, and does deal with people who I would think it's fair to deem, criminally insane, so he has these things. (yea, they're lying all over the house, just the other day, little g asked if she could use her daddy's machine gun to scare the neighbors....please)
So even with all this violent material, I'm not one to advocate weapons. I'm not against them, that would be going against the constitution, (although we are reaching epic times where perhaps the constitution is null and void to some...)
BUT... the blasted geese are making my beautiful sprigs disgusting! They poop all over my yard! The only thing keeping my sanity is that the momma goose has seven little goslings that are running around behind her and the daddy as they take them on a tour of the neighborhood every day...
Here is the conversation, "look here little goosies (that is what gi calls them.) here is a prime place to poop. And that crazy red headed lady, she doesn't mind because she has a whole bunch of little goosies herself."
I'm told the geese leave around the first of July. I really thought all the Canadian geese had relocated to Arkansas and maybe Oak Ridge, TN, but apparently we have quite a collection of geese. I don't think their species faces extinction any time soon... which leads me to believe it's time to reduce some of them...
there is definitely an issue with canadian geese. I think they were "limited" as a species, but now there are too many and they case a lot of problems down here, too. i'd say nature will be okay with you having geese for dinner next week... so long as you don't break your local ordinances about shooting one near a residence ;)
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