They’re back! Three weeks ago we discovered, in spite of what seemed a successful eviction in the fall, that a groundhog had over-wintered under our sunroom. There were five(!) new holes dug into the patches of grass along the side and back of the house, abutting the sunroom.
“He’s got to go!” my husband declared. He rooted around in the garage for 40 minutes and dragged out four long planks and a few shorter ones. Soon he had constructed a long platform that he planted over the narrow area along the side of the house.
“But the hosta is under there!” I protested. “It will push up the planks.”
“Maybe. Maybe not,” he said. “Meanwhile, it will stop him.”
He placed a series of bricks along the shorter area in back of the house.
Last week, on two separate days, I saw two groundhogs—one large, and one quite young. In each case, when they saw me, they ran under my neighbor’s Jacuzzi.
“At least they’ve left us,” my husband said.
I wish!
Yesterday there was a freshly dug hole right through the emerging iris foliage and under the bricks. It’s small—seems we have a new, young tenant.
It’s time to serve another eviction notice!
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