A deer, oh shit.

We have been bothered by a deer eating the garden lately. It has been spotted at the top of the hill last week. Last night Ma turned the outside lights on and saw the deer at the buffet. She scared the deer out of the garden but not off the lawn. It just stood there at the edge of the light looking at her. I got a rocket from the pile and a bottle and a match. I aimed the bottle at the tree tops towards the deer and lit the fuse. With a loud screetch the rocket took off but the trajectory was too low.  It headed in front of the deer who headed for the spring end of the property. As luck would have it the rocket hit the ground just in front of the running deer still spitting sparks. The deer slid to a stop looking at the rocket and for the briefest time the deer was still. Then the rocket exploded in the deers face. Off to the races. The deer headed for the small opening in the wall near the spring but found it covered with mulch. She slid to a stop looking for the door and alsmost ran into a tree. A few stumbles later she bolted over the mulch covered opening and vanished. I fired off another rocket this time aiming the rocket instead of the bottle and it went over the trees and blew up. Hopefully ending the destruction of the plants in the garden. Those rockets are an easy 25 years old and still working. Made in China.