{"id":724,"date":"2007-07-19T03:03:32","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T07:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2007\/07\/19\/the-big-rat\/"},"modified":"2010-10-05T02:25:32","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T06:25:32","slug":"the-big-rat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2007\/07\/19\/the-big-rat\/","title":{"rendered":"The big rat"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>You know what?  I completely lost track of time over the last couple of days.  I haven&#8217;t been feeling well again so I ended up spending the last few days pretty much lying around.   I thought yesterday was Tuesday that&#8217;s how much time I ended up losing track of. It&#8217;s amazing to me that it&#8217;s Thursday already.<\/p>\n<div class=\"912745ff53504cd4aef8ff3ef7b9aa95\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* gardengrows_300x250inpost *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"4054669721\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p> I guess it doesn&#8217;t help that I did something to hurt my foot on Sunday so I&#8217;ve been limping around.  I&#8217;m a klutz so it&#8217;s not unusually for me to trip and hurt my ankle or foot, bang my knee or stub a toe, but this time round I have no idea what I did.  I&#8217;ve been klutz free to the best of my knowledge!<\/p>\n<p>Ok so now that you know why I haven&#8217;t posted for a few days I&#8217;d like to know what you know about RATS.<\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>On Sunday my husband and I were in the kitchen putting a special tinted film on our window &#8211; which I&#8217;ll tell you about in another post in a few moments &#8211; and we both happened to gaze out at the garden at the same time and we saw a big rat beside our chiminea.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve seen mice and rats in the yard before. I don&#8217;t think any of them live in our yard.  One of our neighbors has a garage and shed in the backyard that touches our yard and I think the mice and rats might live in there.   The neighbor on the other side also has an area that I&#8217;ve seen mice come from before.  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