The Strawberry Massacre

man

i've always wanted a strawberry patch so last year

we enjoyed several types of lettuce

a variety of herbs all surrounded in marigolds

hmmmmm! salad tonight

i couldn't wait to harvest that first bowl full of home grown strawberries

this spring

i was so excited i started making a list in my of the lucky friends that will share my home grown heavenly bliss

but

as soon as a big strawberry started to turn

no signs of the strawberry massacre

not even a kernel of chipmunk poop left as evidence

how could one chipmunk eat so many strawberries? there must be a lot more but i never saw one

that was the last straw

forget home grown strawberries

so

they were left over from remodeling an old -30s brown stone in the heart of chicago

they were covered in paint and pretty rusty so

there are just flowers left now… not sure if we will have many strawberries to share this year

i did get this one strawberry before the little garden monkeys absconded it

it was delicious

i quickly found out … so do the chipmunks

a neighbor friend gave me chutes and i another 60 chutes but

can you see the praying mantis

sup

they were perfect

nothing's getting through this

check out the hinges

another client gave them to me and was hoping i could do something neat

now

but

i think i'll send the first two baskets of perfect

woodworking and gardening…..it's all