A New Perspective on Horror Movies

We have a small herd of sneaky, sneaky deer in my neighborhood. The stealth deer come in and mow down my cilantro, my lettuce, or whatever tender green shoots I have growing.

They tipped me over the edge when they mowed down my corn about 10 days before harvest. Two. years. in. a. row.

So this year I pulled out the big guns. I ordered this special stuff I discovered at Johnny's Selected Seeds when I visited Maine. When I first saw it, I didn't want to fly with the stuff. (Can you imagine taking that through security?) Remembered the name, so I could order it.

Product was ordered this year, and I opened the green bottle a couple of weeks ago. As I began to spray around, I thought I should look at the label in case my 3-year-old got curious and played with it. (Goodness knows, it stunk to high heaven.)

Well, it had an active ingredient. It contains 3% porcine blood. That's right folks, I paid good money for pig blood. In a vegetable oil solution.

Remember when they collected the pig blood in the movie Carrie? I truly do not know how they could not retch the entire time. Seriously. The 3% blood and oil solution makes my stomach do some flips as I spray. How could they have a huge bucket of the stuff and no one noticed?

Carrie is now ruined forever. I just won't be able to suspend belief.

Spring...

It's Springtime, and many seeds have been planted. I'm starting some seeds on the back deck-- Italian heirloom and Amish paste tomatoes, and Fish hot peppers. I've already stuck yellow squash and zucchini, pickling cucumbers, red beets, pod and snap peas in the ground. Also in are La Ratte and French fingerling potatoes. (Both are fingerling varieties.) My seeds were ordered from Seed Savers and Johnny's Selected Seeds. The potatoes came from the Maine potato lady.

DH and I have recently expanded our planting area by putting in a new garden bed. I still have more to plant.

My efforts are being thwarted right now by weather extremes. It was cool and rainy, followed by super-hot temperatures, and we'll be returning to cool and rainy tomorrow.

I hope it all survives.