One of the best things about living in a warm climate is that it is possible to have a fall garden. In my opinion, fall is the really the BEST time to have a garden where I live, because the weather is cooler, the bugs are fewer, the chances for rain are better, and it is possible to grow things that, if planted in summer, would shoot up out of the ground and immediately keel over from the heat.  

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Our oak trees are dropping acorns, and the hordes of deer that call our area home are acting like they haven’t eaten in days. Normally, the deer come out in the evening or we’ll see them around dawn. But now that the acorn banquet is being served, they’re coming out during the daytime to take advantage of the bounty and eat as much as they can.

When our two dogs, Shiner and Domino, see deer — on the property but still a good distance away — the usual result is a round of frenzied barking on Shiner’s part, which seems to be more about making sure that Domino is aware of the situation than with scaring off the deer.

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My father always said that it is possible to find something good in just about anything and I can now definitely say that I have found something good about drought: the rain smell is even better when the ground is so dry it cracks.

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