edenfalling | pepper update, Thursday 11/3/16

Sometime on Wednesday 11/2/16, between 8:30am and 7:30pm, a squirrel got at my poor beleaguered peppers, and bit off all the flowers and fruit from the nibbled pepper. I thought I'd placed it far enough from the porch railing to discourage casual vandalism, but apparently not.

And then sometime overnight, the miscreant returned and bit off an entire branch from the plant with the sideways pepper. The sideways pepper itself is still attached and did not suffer additional damage, but the other two peppers on the plant are now in tupperware in my fridge, waiting for me to chop them and freeze them for storage.

I hate squirrels SO FUCKING MUCH. >.<

nine peppers on a porch

the remaining seven peppers, Thursday, 3 November 2016

pepper plant with many leaves and branches chewed off

pepper leaves and branches on a wooden porch floor

a tiny, squirrel-mangled bell pepper in a human hand

1) the nibbled pepper, now with all its flowers and fruit chewed off
2) wreckage on the porch floor
3) the poor pepper that had no chance to grow :(

pepper plant with a branch chewed off

a pepper branch with two pepper fruits, lying on wooden boards

a small bell pepper and a tiny bell pepper on a cutting board with a human hand for scale

1) the scar where the sideways pepper lost a branch
2) the branch in question, plus its two miraculously unscathed peppers
3) which I brought indoors and will chop up for storage later today

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