Mother Nature is Not Kind

   My garden began with a war with the stripped cucumber beetle quickly followed by rabbit attack. Today I was dive bombed by a pair of Blue Jays. Seriously, first swooping and then a death spiral right towards my head. I brought out an old mylar balloon bouquet left over from a party that the kids had tired of playing with and put it in the pine tree. Those Blue Jays yelled at it for hours. I realize that this is just the first battle of my war with them. Wow. I have only been gardening for a couple weeks and I feel like at every turn I am in a life or death battle. I thought that Mother Nature was supposed to be kind.