Hi Ken, Thank you for posting a picture of that adorable Papoose. How old is yours? I have one that's barely larger than a baseball and wondering if and when it will get large enough to see (it's now living next to two peonies).

I THINK I figured it out :))) Stinkhorn... it's a fungus like a mushroom... guess its supposed to smell really bad and attract flies so that they take the spores with them on their travels.. Luckily I found after the stank had left!! Courtney

Ha! look at my screen name. Looking around the MBR: four reproduction Audubons in place of a headboard. One Japanese painting, bird on rice sheaf with roses. Two more Audubons on chest of drawers, along with life size fish crow carving. Dresser, one pottery sandpiper, one small Lizars sunbird print. Grandfather's enamelled Japanese box, sparrow and plum blossom, great aunt's Indian inlay box, bee-eaters - heirloom, not my fault. Okay, my fault, I chose them when it was my turn. That all works but I went overboard with the pillow...too contemporary, no self-discipline at all, I can't make myself get rid of it. Well, great-aunt's box doesn't quite fit either... DH has never complained, maybe because the color scheme is not too feminine, cream and rust and cafe au lait. Master bath, seven or eight more Lizars hummingbird prints on background of stencilled bamboo. I shall spare you the description of the other rooms in the house - no fabric, but antique prints and Japanese paintings, although there is the hummingbird wallpaper in the powder room and the hummingbird shower curtain in the children's bath. If you have to pee in my house, you get hummingbirds. My children sometimes do say, Mom, you have a lot of birds. Little do they know I'm waiting until they get through college and I can afford Koson prints. So fair warning, it is entirely possible to go too far. It's just that birds make me happy. I will tell you, it beats frogs. There was a while when people thought I collected frogs, because I had three small frogs and then my dear ones gave me frogs...

We dont usually havd issues with the deer, until last spring. A mama had twin fawns and would frequent our yard daily for clover, then later for apples. One of her fawns... The smaller one in particular, was very rambunctious and naughty. Aside from running crazy playful figure8s and teasing his sibling and mama when he was sposed to be eating... he also went into the garage whenever he wanted, jumped the garden fence, came right up to the side of the house n took random bites out of everything at least once and sometimes twice. Til my hound mix cornered him in the garden and scared him so bad I thought I was going to have to untangle him from the fence. After that he would stomp n bolt a few feet at every sound, Lolz. I really hope he remembers his lesson if he returns this year.