Our Home is a Battlefield

We have a not so secret garden.
We grow our own vegetables.

We have a compost pile for kitchen scraps.

We have an irrigation system to water the garden.

We like homegrown tomatoes especially when they look like this.

Apparantly, so do the rodents living around my house.

In the last two weeks, the majority of our ripe and just starting to ripen tomatoes have been attacked at night by varmints.

Tim went out on the attack earlier this week and bought two large cages and a few rat traps. All were set off the next day with nothing in them.

If you're keeping score at home.

Rodents 1  - Us 0

Then he bought mouse traps and set them last night at the base of the tomato plants.

This morning I didn't wake up to the alarm clock but "Deb, We Got One! Come check out this fat bastard."

Exhibit A

I said out loud that I hoped he was the only one. Tim responded, where there's one there's many.

Current score:
Rodents 1 - Us 1

I'm guest blogging over at Cathy Has Antsy Pants. She and I have become "internet friends." We may actually meet in real life in October when she leaves the frozen tundra of Minnesota and heads to Virginia. Check out her site.