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Two barriers of shitty little wire fencing plus a sentinel posted. It was on the porch all along, but used as a sort of "booster" to prop up and position the husks. 

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I'm a little bit nervous about whether either of them will survive. The Smiley Face is hanging together by a thread. 

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The rest of the gang is now safely ensconced in the back garage until next season. 

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Haven't been religiously monitoring last year's crop, but the dog took a greater interest in the area during her morning Murder Patrol so I figured I'd check in. 

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Terrible picture (this is the best I could get...) but things are looking fairly creepy. Whether they end up looking scary or just decrepit remains to be seen, but either way, we'll find out soon. 

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35 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

Could never do that in my hood. The javelinas would devour it the first night.

We have raccoons, skunks, opossum, foxes, and deer (though they rarely venture too far out of the nearby forest). Some of the things I've curated over the years get eaten, while others do not. 

I know that certain types squash-ish things have a very bitter taste and are low-grade poisonous, so I suspect that the survivors tend to get nibbled at and then all nibblers quickly learn that eating them was a mistake. I think I posted about this upthread, but we had a "volunteer" (i.e., unplanted and unplanned) squash of some kind in our yard one summer. I contemplated eating it, but learned beforehand that in humans, common symptoms from eating volunteer squash include total hair loss as well as months-long bouts of diarrhea.

I did not eat it. 

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