Mole Attack

The latest creation of our backyard nemesis

We started getting these dirt mounds in our backyard this winter.  Despite our original belief, these were not made by the neighbor kids, but by a creature called a mole.

Dawn and I have no experience dealing with moles, and we pretty much watched our yard being buried in these mounds for a while now.

Today, I stuck a garden hose in the hole and blasted water into it for 10-20 min.  I fancied a thought of water spewing like geysers from all the holes it has created, but that didn’t happen.  The hole continued to take water like it had no bottom.  I have no idea how moles make their burrows, but I have a feeling that it is a vast network of underground tunnels…

I doubt that I drowned our mole in our attempt to fight back, and I guess I will continue to fight this little sucker this summer…