Rabbit Snack

Every year, the rabbits come out to do battle, eating the vines that make my summer garden into a happy place! They come along and snip the topmost, tender parts of the growing vine and leave the rest. Usually, I just stomp around leaking Yosemite Sam explicatives and plant new seeds. But this year, I developed a weapon—homemade cloches. I've always admired the beautiful bell cloches that are only seen in carefully-kept, English gardens, but who can afford those? So I turned to the many empty pop bottles, leftovers of the 50th wedding anniversary of my parents-in-law. I washed them out, cut them up, pinned them down, and I thought I had those rabbits beat. But no. They must've stretched their scrawny necks and snickered as they stood up to nip out the tops of these hyacinth bean vines...right out of my pop bottle cloches. Turns out I should've made them with the pop bottle neck still on, like these.