journal entry #7

I said I might do some more journal entries along the line, and here one is.
This is an update on my owl story, from prompt #15. The owl hung around for about a week and then was gone. I continue to wake up every morning and look out my bedroom window to see if he has returned. This morning he was out there again, I was excited to see him. Yesterday, my partner finally put out the rat traps in the chicken coop. I did not relish that idea, but knew I needed to get rid of the rat (or 2). Upon feeding the chickens and checking the traps I saw that one held a dead rat. Argh, ugh, gross! Sooooo...I gathered what guts I had, poked it four or five times to be sure it was dead, then found a garden tool to open the trap up. I was not about to put my fingers anywhere near that rat head, who knows it still could have tried to bite me--one last impulse from the dead! I lifted the spring off the rat and grabbed it by the tail, with a paper towel, and tossed it out to the garden saying "here, take that please." The owl swooped down onto my offering and carried it away. So, I am relieved that a rat is gone, and the owl is pleased to have some food. Let's hope that I don't have to add another update like this one. I so hope there was only one rat.