While he may cause some of you to squirm, Stanley is not in fact a rat.

He’s a field mouse…as in this field…

….or this field…

…or any one of the umpteen other fields that surround our neighborhood.

Anjung-Ri is a sprawling little agricultural community and the reality is it comes with all kinds of characters…including Stanley.

The field mice nestled up in all the hay that was left in the fields over the winter.

And now that the farmers are out getting their fields ready…

…they’ve all been forced out.

And since they’re not interested in the early onion crops, it means they’ll seek out seeds elsewhere.

Like my backyard.