Crime

Our tomatoes are gone. Michael stepped outside for his morning run only to discover one of the biggest disappointments ever. Tom and Tina tipped over and every single green and orange tomato GONE! None had turned red yet but there were so many growing steady and strong. We had so many recipes waiting for those tomatoes, we had lists of people to bring our homegrown tomatoes to because there were so many, and we just were so stinkin' proud of ourselves for growing them!

We are heartbroken. If it wasn't a tomato rapture, then it was either a neighbor or a nasty, good for nothing animal. I immediately thought of a person, Michael a deer. And so help me if it was a deer - I would love to personally hunt down and shoot that deer. If you own a hunting rifle, I lovingly invite you to come sit on our front porch and wait for your prey. Deer are stupid and only cause car accidents. Bambi is cute but he eats tomatoes too. Maybe it was that peacock.

And besides we live in a neighborhood, in a townhome community, on the main road!!! We didn't think deer would be an issue?! Tom and Tina are still doing Ok, they will produce more tomatoes, but now we will be paranoid about them. Huckleberry and Finn are goners. Poor plants, poor us! I feel very bad for Michael because he took such good care of them all. Watering them all the time, giving them tomato food and resoiling the pots. He will be such a good father. But until then, we allowed our children to be eaten.