About Clarabelle and How I learned that deer in Glacier View Meadows have no sense of humor.
Clarabelle "planted" red plastic tulips all along her fence line.
Our crazy eccentric 80 year old landlady, always commented on how pretty her (red plastic) tulips were, and I always agreed - after all, they made her happy.
I loved the way her bright blue eyes sparkled and the way her white hair went every which way on top of her crazy little head. I also loved listening to her stories from years gone by....
She was so proud of those red plastic tulips! Secretly, I thought she was just plumb loco, but then I was only 20 years old.
Fast forward about 24 years when we first moved to Glacier View Meadows.
After a herd of marauding deer wiped out my beautiful flower pots on our front deck, I bought some silk flowers and shoved them into the dirt in the empty pots.
Crazy Clarabelle crossed my mind at the time, but I laughed it off - it was intended to be a joke.
I called it my fake-iscape.
Now, deer are supposed to have a terrific sense of smell; they can smell things 30 yards away.
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But when they revisited the deck, they yanked those brightly colored silk flowers out of the pots and promptly spit each one onto the ground.
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I don't know why they even bothered them -
but I got the message.
Deer may have a terrific sense of smell,
but they have absolutely no sense of humor!
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