rats!

[eub]

Rats were in the garden, many rats. I saw a thing climbing in the webbing, slid the door open to get a look at it, and it skittered down to the balcony floor and jumped with a plop onto the shed roof two feet below. Huh. Then I saw another thing perched in the crook of the big stem of the grape tomato, and this thing was a rat.





It was scared off by the camera flash, skittered down like the first and plopped onto the shed roof, and I didn't see any more, went on to pick beans like I'd opened the door to do. Picked beans. When I was done, I saw a rat, perched in the crook of the big stem of the grape tomato.

I watered the plants then, wondering with each pot if a rat would explode out of the weeds.

Comments

Re: rats!

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

oh, way cool! we have little wood rats here, and i'd come across them outside every now and then. mostly they lived in our attic. haven't seen any live ones since the catlings moved in, of course. :/

Re: rats!

[eub.livejournal.com]

I saw a creature in the shape of a rat sitting on a grassy hillock in the park, the other day. Seattle seems all over rats.

I suppose it's when the rats all flee for the border that it'd be time to worry.