Reginald here. The most important groundhog on the property reporting in on our own personal Alamo.

Yes, many of you are wondering about the situation at the primary vegetable garden. The fact is that several of our beloved clan have chosen to remain in the burrow in the center of this garden even as a trench is dug to keep us out. I chose to stay inside the trench to keep spirits up as we face this historic challenge to our sovereignty. Yes, there is a place we can walk across to get out of the garden, but why would we go? This garden has long been OUR playground and pantry.

I am gratified that the media is interested in our story. It is a brave choice to remain in the garden, because there is not much food. No it was not harvested by the humans. We ate it all before that could happen. So we are on a bit of a fast inside the trenches. We may have to eat the onions and basil, the only crops we have sneered at.

Please don’t worry about us! Life is good. We redig holes when human children fill them in. We play canasta. We laugh in the face of the man with the backhoe. We think how history will remember us. We will stay here inside the trench until the new fence goes up, and then we will parade back to our other burrows where we have books to read this winter about techniques for breaching fences of all sorts.

First trench dug. Pathetic attempt at a fence still in place on the left.

Trenching continues. Notice that our escape route is being checked out by visiting grandpuppy. Also note that gardener has thrown in the towel on this garden and left crab grass to prevail where once were tasty vegetables.

Grandpuppy checking out our burrow in center of garden. Note that gardener person has begun to remove useless frost cloth which we learned to crawl under for munching on “protected” crops. It’s been a hot, dry summer so we appreciated the shade provided by the cloth.

Original fencing now removed which really makes no difference to use as it failed to deter us in any way. Last covered crop of carrots with frost cloth at top of picture revealed to have been successfully demolished by us. Good work team!

Let’s not get careless in the final days of this harvest season. Somehow the gardener harvested four beans and got them into the house before we spotted them. Please don’t let this kind of sloppy behavior prevail. Make sure you eat everything!