It's started already.
We've been at Woodchuck Acres for 10 years, for the past several we've seen no larger vermin than carpenter bees and the occasional mouse. Now it seems the word has spread that we're leaving.
First I started seeing squirrels in the yard. A chipmunk keeps appearing on the deck, peering in the glass doors. A cottontail has taken up residence in the yard. Woodchucks have burrowed under the goat barn. And crows are pecking at the lawn.
I'm sure to most people these are not signs for alarm. For a gardener, they're trouble with a capital T and that rhymes with P and that stands for PESTS.
It's like a horror movie only with furry, adorable invaders.
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