Funny thing happened this morning. I don’t know if we’ve mentioned this before, but our neighborhood has about 340 acres of undeveloped land running thorough it (they call it a greenbelt.) Well, because of this, we have hundreds of deer that live all around us. Austin in general has a ton of deer, but our neighborhood seems to be especially full of them. For example, when we came home from work last night, there were about 10 of them hanging out next to the road.

Anyway, this morning as we were getting ready to leave, I hear Eric yell “Hey Ellie, do these look like deer prints to you?” I went in to the dining room where he was and looked out to the flower bed that is in our front yard. There were about 100 hoof marks in the dirt, and 5 of our bushes were completely picked dry!! Now, we’ve been warned about the deer, that in the winter when there is no food in the greenbelt they will come up to the houses and eat people’s gardens, but it is still very green here!! There is no reason for them to come up to the houses! It was so funny to see our newly planted shrubs look so sad. I would have loved to see them chomping on it, because by the looks of it, I bet there was more than one!