Last summer Toby’s brother in Ohio grew a bumper crop of butternut squash. We are talking hundreds of awesome squashes, piled in the basement to cure. When his Dad drove out to visit in January he delivered a giant sack of them, like he was the Santa Claus of squash….
A few days ago Toby called me from Mississippi, where he is doing prescribed burning for 6 weeks. One of his coworkers lives in New Meadows, and his wife had found mouse damage girdling their fruit trees. “Can you check our trees?” he asked. Our trees are still under 3 feet…