This continues to be a very hectic week. Life will not settle down until sometime next week.

We went out to try to rabbit proof the raspberries. Instead of fencing them, we dug out snow and threw it on top of the raspberries completely covering them. On top of that we tried to arrange the compacted snow, think thick ice, we scraped off the garden path. We hope the ice acts to keep the snow from melting soon.

When we checked the raspberries, we discovered that the rabbits did not dig below the surface of the snow. I wonder if they do not realize that the stems go down through the snow. After dealing with the squirrels, we just assumed that the rabbits would be a little more clever. That gave us the idea that if we took snow from the remainder of the garden and yard, we might be able to keep the raspberry canes under cover for a little longer.

The raspberries are planted on the south side of a six-foot basketweave privacy fence. Consequently. it is the first part of the garden to defrost, maybe even the first garden in the neighborhood to defrost. We just thought that if we piled it with snow and ice, it might be the last garden to defrost and the rabbits might have discovered the other gardens.

We may have been foiled by Mother Nature. You know that it is not nice to fool Mother Nature. For the past two days, we have had intermittent rain which is washing away the snow. We just might have to go out and fence the rabbits out of the raspberries with chicken wire.