Ask Annie for July 30, 2003
Dear Readers,
Or should I say, "DEER Readers?" Remember our ongoing discussion last summer about methods to keep deer and elk out of gardens? That subject is still popping up, and the motion-detecting water spraying scarecrow is still ranking the number one deterrent, though some readers have said it was not cheap.
Another topic I've had e-mails on is the lack of reality in department store inventories as far as Washington's weather. One mother was disgusted with the shortage of choices of pants for little girls. Okay, I'm that one mother. Why, as soon as Christmas is over, must the stores stock summer clothes as if we live in California? We have months and months of cool weather after that, even cloudy, chilly days in the summer, yet the racks are full of fluffy little shorts and capri pants without a decent pair of long legged pants to be found. And in a few weeks, though August and September are our hottest months, all the summer clothes will be whipped out of the stores and school clothes and winter coats will be displayed. I am not organized well enough to shop for what I'll want in November in the summer. And I know I'm not alone in this. Another woman (not me this time,) needed to buy a young man's long sleeved dress shirt in July. This should be a staple in the stores, considering all the graduation ceremonies and weddings that take place in the summer, but no. I wish those in charge of inventory would wake up and smell the rain. It's very frustrating. Let's all clip out this column and take it shopping with us, discreetly dropping it in dressing rooms, on clothing department counters, etc., and see if we can start a little
Annie
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