I sit at a window...which on most days is a lovely experience. My view is the garden entry way , with beautiful flowers and lovely trees and CordeValle's pristine golf course in the near distance. I often have hummingbirds buzzing around as well, which is kind of surreal since hummingbirds are a cornerstone in Clos LaChance's branding.

Anyhow, I was typing away at one thing or another this morning, when this pops up in my window.

I screamed and yelled and jumped out of my chair. There are a ton of coyotes around here and my split second initial thought was that one had gone rabies mad and was trying to get in and eat me alive.

And then it suddenly became clear....

Tom Morrow, our funny-man maintenance supervisor was just getting a laugh. He got me. But that thing certainly looked real.

What is this crazy coyote statue for you ask? We have a large gaggle of wild turkeys that love to plop over our deer fencing into the vineyard. And once they are here, they gorge themselves on grapes.

This turkey "scarecrow" apparently works, so hopefully we will not have as many gobblers here this year eating our crop. And, this ugly coyote is actually part of Clos LaChance's commitment to sustainable agriculture...solving a pest problem without chemicals or other environmentally harmful pest eradication programs. For more about Clos LaChance's commitment to Sustainable Agriculture, please click here.