Well I thought I would put some compost on my Fig trees, I asked my little wife to call around and see if she could get me a "good deal" on some cotton burr compost, sure enough the first rattle out of the bag and she found some at a local feed store that the damn rats had gotten into......I thought I was really saving me some $
We opened the first unopened bag and spread it around two of the trees!
Then we got to a bag that the rats had gotten in to, I thought they were lone gone, well I stuck my hand in there and that compost felt really, really lumpy, then I looked at that big ole lummpy thing, guess what?? yep it was a "mother Rat (we talking RAT HERE FOLKS)...I thought that sack of compost was lumpy, it was not 1/2 as lumpy as me drawers was, and after I got kinda over that shock, I reached in that sack (about the bravest thing I have did in ages) and got me another handful of small lumpy stuff outa that darn sack, cept this time there was some movement in there!
And yes there was some movement in me drawers (the new clean ones I had just put on after my shower) I had 3 of them little bast***S right there in my hand.
I then told Figpicker(wife) to finish off the compost spreading while I went to do shower # 2........I'm here to tell yaw, there ain't no way all that un spread compost would fit where she told me to stick that stuff!!
That was some kind of an experience :-)))
Happy gardening Ya'll
Cecil