(Our first backyard "retreat" just before Glamping Weekend. This is just the beginning.) Had to cancel our glamping weekend (away from home) due to a situation beyond my control. I promised myself that a glamped up tent would be put up somewhere on our 6 acres. We haven't done it yet. Maybe today. Started building the chicken tractor. Planted 9 sweet potatoes (first time for us and a bit late), 6 straight neck yellow squash plants, the last of the tomatoes (totaling 121 tomato plants now), 6 zucchini plants (our planted seeds did not all come up), and one last sweet banana pepper plant for the billy goat (his favorite). One daughter went to put the red hens away, and found the rat in the coop. She said it's "huge" and scurried up the chicken wire and up through a hole in the ceiling (which we blocked with a block). My son went out to re-set traps and saw it to. I think he almost got it with a shovel. It's eating our ch...