Garden Surprise

Thank goodness I was wearing latex gloves and shoes. While digging and moving plants around in the garden, I noticed a squished rat on the lawn next to my feet. It had burst open and guts were lying across the lawn. Excuse me a second...AAAUUGGGGHHH....Anyway, I don't know if it was already dead or if I accidently killed it with the shovel.

It's a good thing that I found it as I was finishing up my project, because it's going to be a long time before I dig around in the garden again. My project was to do something about the big mud hole that the dogs run through on their way from the lawn to the house. Since the dogs want a path there, there is no point in fighting it. I laid down some flagstone in the path that they follow and planted bog plants bordering it because it's too wet and gooey for anything else to grow there.

I'll wait and see how this goes. I'm getting desperate. My house is starting to look like I have a dirt floor, dirt furniture and dirt bed.