Marauding Javelinas
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The fascination with Javelinas took a wrong turn this week. The pot with the nice, plump, spineless prickly pear cactus was laying on its side with all of the top pads showing large chunks missing! Now it had been in this spot, unmolested, for several months so why now? Of course, the culprits were gone by the time I made my discovery. I suppose I should have known that a spineless prickly pear would just be too tempting for a Javelina. After all, they eat the pads with the huge spines so my cactus must have been like filet mignon to them. I guess this is one of the reasons there are so many walled gardens in the desert. We’re planning on two of them for our house in the Dragoons. So there!
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