So Spain won the world cup is a pretty horribly officiated and boring game that ended up as 1-0 in overtime. The highlight of the was lunch, cod with avocado(Haitian style), cornmeal with beans and dumplings. Oh and some tasty tomatoes from moms garden!

Now for a little garden story. Friday I decided to go fill up my squirrel feeder since its been empty for so long. As I was climbing up the stairs I noticed that one of the windows had been broken. I thought this was due to the one stupid squirrel that couldnt figure out how to open the lid like all the others. After I attempted to repair the broken window with mesh, filled it up with peanuts then attach back to the tree I saw the same dumb squirrel start biting away at the mesh… sigh. The next day I noticed the mesh was totally gone and that almost all the peanuts had been eaten. So again, climb back up and this time I noticed the next window was broken and a bb (pellet gun) dent was in the side of the feeder. It looks like someones been shooting my feeder, and not just dented the metal, but also broken the next window – so I have to assume the first window was broken the same way. So now my feeder is down for major repairs AND I’ll be moving it to another section of the yard. From the position of the feeder and the damage from the dent it could have only come from the left side of my yard. Meaning my neighbor, or some kid standing at my fence… the audacity of me suffering from the same delinquent activities I partook in as a kid

More garden story. Rats are smart. This is probably the inspiration for Secret of NIMH.   A few weeks ago I noticed a rat traversing my neighbors (to the right) yard and going under his shed.  A few days ago I saw the little focker in my yard so I decided to buy one of those humane traps because I dont want to kill the rabbits, squirrels and chipmunks.  I’ve seen the trap over turned, door down multiple times but not rat – at least the food isnt being eaten.  Either way its been about 4 days of attempted trapping and no rat, or any other animal for that matter.  All I want to do is shoot the little bastard with my bb gun!

I also would like to catch the jerk shooting my feeder.

Oh and if youre curious about the turtle, I found him next to the rat trap Friday morning.  Kristiaan and I went on a turtle release date that same day at Sligo Creek park.

7/12/10 – With Rodrigo Y Gabriela playing on my iPod, in the rain, I went chainsaw crazy on the two front corners of the house. Lets see how easily those critters get up on the roof now…