kindergardens - week 7 {oh deer}

How to install a cheap emergency I'm-tired-of-netting-all-over-everything-but-my-garden-won't-survive-unless-I-do-something deer fence:

Step 1:  consult gardening friends and collect sage advice.

Step 2:  buy several electric fence posts (Tractor Supply is our new friend).

Step 3:  take a break to head to the house for tweezers to pull out the plastic splinter you got from one of the cheap fence posts.

Step 4:  place fence posts around the garden.  Be sure to grumble about the troublesome consequences of this particular step (we are Hubby is going to get to know our weed-whacker/weed-eater/string trimmer really well).

Step 5:  go to the scary little sporting goods shack up the road which you imagine to be full of gruff-looking, gun-toting hunter folk Walmart and pick up some heavy duty fishing line.

Step 6:  Attempt to string it around your fence posts while tripping over an amorous, attention-seeking barn cat.

Step 7:  stand back and admire your handiwork while you still can, for you will go out in a few days and find one of the lower lines snapped and your peas and lettuce decimated.  Scratch your head (it was 50-lb fishing line, after all, and the top line was still intact) and consult with neighbors for possible suspects.

Step 8:  replace/repair snapped line and begin researching additional deterrents for groundhogs.