Walking in the Woods Alone- and a garden update

So, after school I helped dad plant the garden!

Beets (3 different ones)
Carrots
Spinach
Dwarf Sugar Snap Peas

Once the frosts are gone for good, we're gonna plant artichokes, pumpkin, melon, cucumbers, tomatoes, and peppers...

It's exciting to get the seeds in the dirt!

Can't wait to sink my teeth into some fresh, homegrown produce!

But it's not all good news and happy times...

We put out the trap last afternoon, and we haven't caught a single thing yet.... See?

Our pitifully empty havahart trap...

It's supposed to rain tomorrow, I hope we catch something before a downpour. I'd love to see how a little critter might react to that kind of exposure- I'd love to test their limit.

Anyway, I just got back from a walk alone. I went to check on the animals I caught last year, and stir the compost so to speak.

I have a sharp spade that I use, and some pruning sheers for any bones that are too big to snap...

But the flies fucking swarm me everytime. I guess the maggots help decompose the pieces but once they get air-born they kinda really get on my nerves. Anybody have any ideas to keep 'em off me? I wear goggles so they can't get to my eyes and I just clench my mouth shut the whole time, but they buzz around my ears and nostrils.

Aside from the flies, it's coming along nicely I guess. But I don't think I'll have usable compost for quite a while. there's a lot of sludge that'll be good for the plants once it dries out, but I'm gonna have to pick out the bones and hair, otherwise my dad will know I haven't been releasing our catches the way he thinks I am.

Oh, one other thing!

I found a curious picture in the woods:

Looks like a lingerie add from a magazine...
Don't know why somebody burned the edges. 

It kinda bothers me that I found this. It makes me worry that I'm not the one going out there. If somebody else is traipsing around my little stomping ground, they might find my compost pile, and I'm not sure that would be a good thing...

Hopefully whoever brought this out there is just some little kid, getting his rocks off to the lingerie catalogue- and trying to burn the evidence.

If that's all it is, then they probably won't go back out there often... And if it is just a horny little dweeb, they'll probably be too scared to say anything even if they do find my animal heap.

Fingers crossed.

Good night all!