the blog of May 12, 2006

rats

On Monday, as part of my job, I was literally out in a field looking for a well. I went up to a storage tank, and saw a pipe leading to something that I thought might be the well, but it was covered with a wooden enclosure. I lifted this box to discover a large, freaked-out rat beholding me, a larger, freaked-out human. There were other rats hiding under the storage tank. It appeared as though the big one had built a nest in the enclosure that covered not the well, but a pump.