[Alas Babylon!]

In the course of our assignments all over the country and overseas, we lived in government quarters or rented homes and while we made those accommodations homey, they were never really home. In my drives exploring the country around our assignments, I was always searching for the place to call home. After my husbands retirement we found our home; a small farm out in the country.

I am that husband (not yours obviously) and spent 22 years in the US Air Force. Absolutely similar situation. At my last posting at Maxwell AFB in Alabama, we bought our family farm in the rolling foothills along the Tallapoosa river, 24 years ago.

Today I'm putting up MORE tanex deer netting and re-transplanting broccoli and cabbage that WAS a salad bar for those four-legged heathens....

[bert]

The deer population can be controlled.

In my formerly deer plagued sub urban neighborhood, we are said to have coyotes. As a side benefit, we have a severely reduced stray cat population

I’ve heard a small dog or two is also missing.

The truth is however....... the deer are gone