Wildlife Problems

We've been having problems with deer rubbing on our new trees and tearing them up!  Wouldn't you think they would find bigger trees to rub on?  Most of this evergreen's branches were torn off.  We've had two austrees really damaged by deer and now rabbits have been chewing on the austrees too - like about 15 of them!

Bill has resorted to putting chicken wire around all of the evergreens which has been expensive and a time consuming job.  It'll also make watering them much harder.

We have pheasant hunters from Wisconsin here today and tomorrow.  Bill is hunting with them this morning.  They stay at a hotel in Emmetsburg.   It's a sunny but windy day.

We have a Women's Conference at our church this Sat.  About 200 women will attend from all over.  Always a nice event.  I'm going to help in the kitchen today and tomorrow working on the dessert and some other things for the lunch that day.  Our pastor's wife is the one in charge of meals and does a great job.

 

The building is coming along!  The crew is hoping to have a bunch of guys here on Fri. to get the roof done quick.  There will be 4' of charcoal gray around the bottom, the roof will be charcoal gray and the doors and shutters will be white.  The 20' walls make the windows look small!