Kelly, it took three trips for my handyman to block all of the entry points she found to get into the house pad. Once she couldn't get up there, the doe started on the deer resistant plants in front of the house. She ate all of my blue eyed grass. Chomped on my tree of heaven and my star magnolia. She ate all of the lungwort outside of one of the deer cages where I have a rose growing and the peonies down in one of the street beds. She also ate all of the vinca on the slope between the driveway and the carport.
I think she moved onto someone else's garden. We did put up a fence under my neigbor's forsythia hedge which is where the deer were entering the front garden. So far, I haven't seen any deer in the front gardens this year. They were coming through under the hedge. They could jump the fence on the side of the house, but haven't bothered, so far. It seems like they are too lazy to go around the front yard and up the stairs.
However, with all of the rain we have had this year, my tiny lawn is no longer the only green spot in the area. I think that helps, too.
Margaret .... now that I have learned how to read my wood and how to hit what I am aiming at, splitting wood is a chore I don't mind so much ... if my back isn't giving me fits. There are other chores that are much higher on my "hate-that-chore" list ...
