Here is another “ew” post.
For the first time since we moved to VA, we got snow that stuck.
Ariel & Owen went outside to play in the snow.
When they got to the bottom of our driveway (looking for pretty things to take pictures of) they found this:

toothsome
This my friends is…a rat.
It was a big as a small dog.
Ew.

rat
The neighbors had warned us about really long rats that come out of basement toilets (good thing we got rid of ours!).
We thought they were exaggerating. Apparently not.

theclawAdri thinks his claws look like Saruman’s fingernails (you know? when he looks into his crystal ball thing?).
Ariel thinks it escaped from the set of Princess Bride…