Another one bites the dust!

Another one bites the dust!!!

But I may be trapping for a quite awhile.

"Rodents have high rate of reproduction. Most species commonly have 6-12 young in each litter and a female can haveone litter each month (gestation period for rats is 21 to 23 days). http://ipmnet.org/cicp/Pests/rodents.htm#facts"-

Rats #3

One small one on Wednesday afternoon and one small one today.

Just how many are there?

Rats! # 2

Let's just say - peanut butter worked better than teriyaki chicken.

But that rat was big! And I left the trap with pb for any of his or her friends.

Rats!

We have chickens in a coop. Because of the chickens, we have rats. My wife saw one up close eating out of the chicken food bucket. The rat must go!!!

So yesterday I bought a trap and laid it in a little ditch which was between the openings to the rat tunnel. And I baited it with - Teriyaki chicken! What else would I use?

Today I went back to check on the trap. I lifted up the wood that covered the trap and.... surprise the trap was gone!!! (A few years ago we set a rat trap and all I caught was front leg.)
Visions of a diseased rat caught in a trap after dragging the trap into the hole danced through my mind. Man over beast!!!!!

Then I started pouring water down the holes in hope of drowning the rat. As I watched the water pour into the hole I saw a flash of copper wire. I kept spraying the water. And soon, uncovered by running water as perfectly snapped trap with....no rat. The meat was gone and here is what got me: One small rock and one small stick were stuck between the bar and the wood of the trap.

My guess is the rat threw dirt on the trap, snapped it shut and proceeded to feed on perfectly good teriyaki chicken. (The chicken was what we bought from Winco.) The egg laying chickens are save.

Then to spite me, the rat proceeded to completely cover the trap with dirt, resulting in my temporary glee.

The trap now has peanut butter. More tomorrow.

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The Answer to Sin

The answer to sin is discipline.

What is the answer to:

Discouragement?
The discipline of faithfulness.

Looking at pornography?
The discipline of self control

Gossip?
The discipline of kindness.

Anger?
The discipline of peace.

Hate?
The discipline of love.

For every sin, there is a biblical fruit. I believe that God wants us to become disciplined people, having disciplined thoughts resulting in disciplined actions over an extended period of time.

Also, I believe that God gives us the ability to become disciplined people, having disciplined thoughts resulting in disciplined actions over an extended period of time.

2 Peter 1:3-4

His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

Philippians 2:12-13
Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence— continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.

Romans 5:5-6

And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.

1 Corinthians 2:11-13
For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.

Hebrews 12:1-3

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

I challenge you to remind yourself of what God has given us, that he works in you because he has poured out his spirit that we may receive it and that we can run with confidence the race marked out for us because:

God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline."
2nd Timothy 1:7