They never eat my pepper leaves until this year.
"I had this theory. It was based loosely on the unremarkable observation that the old are always looking back with longing while the young, with the same longing, look ahead. One man remembers what the other imagines." Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking: Life Studies from a Dismal Trade
It turns out they did change the Irish Spring soap. It's not the original scent anymore that the deer wouldn't come near. I talked with a guy that bathed with IS for years and he said it was different in a bad way now and he no longer uses it. Corporate bastards always have to screw a good thing up!
Terry