I have never been very fond of cats. I especially don’t like cats in my yard. For the past 20 minutes, I have been researching cat traps. You see, my neighbor doesn’t keep track of his cat. It jumps the fence and tears up my garden. This makes me very upset.

When I awoke this morning, I realized the cat had destroyed 25% of my corn. Enough is enough, I thought. With some careful work this evening, I may have saved some of it, but only time will tell.

Needless to say, when the cat hopped the fence tonight and ducked into the rows of corn again, I grabbed an 8 foot 2-by-2 that I was measuring (pole beans need something to climb) and gave the cat a surprise of my own.

In other news, we decided to do some more thinning to the turnips, beets, and carrots.