Uninvited Visitor

I planted some seeds on Friday and Saturday, and by Monday or Tuesday they were already coming up. Now all the beans and lettuce have really popped! So exciting. Here is the first edemame plant:

And here is the first of the lettuce!

Sunday evening Craig and I ran up to Rural King to get some chicken wire to go around our beds.

Why are we putting chicken wire around our beds? RABBITS!

Oh look, a baby one. How nice.

There are a ton of rabbits and squirrels that like to play in our yard, and I didn’t want them stealing our crop or nibbling our plants to the root all summer. So one night Craig did two of the beds, and he was going to do the other two on Thursday night.

We were trying to avoid this:

I came home from work Thursday night and as I walk walking up the sidewalk I noticed a big dark spot and looked over. There was a rabbit digging a hole in my potato patch! I chased him out of the yard, went in to change clothes, went to the back door and I see this:

Seriously bunny!? I chased him out, only to find him in there again, digging further and further each time. Luckily, he didn’t get into my potatoes. We were going out to eat that night for my brother and I’s birthdays so I quickly wrapped some chicken wire around this bed, because I KNEW he would get back in while we were gone.

Today I was off work, and was doing some cleaning in the kitchen when I looked out and saw this:

He was trying to burrow in our straw pile. Then I watched him for a few minutes, and sure enough, he was trying to get back into the very same bed.

Nope, you can’t get in there!

He even tried to bite through the chicken wire to get in the bed! Crazy rodent!

So he just sat there. All day. I have a feeling he isn’t going anywhere any time soon.