Peeee U!
Holy crap! (Some stream of consciousness forthcoming, watch out!)
I went to bed at 8:30 (in the PM) last night, and just got up for the day a bit ago.
I don’t remember the last time I slept so long.
My son did wake up at 4am trying to tell me something. (Being so early, or late, whichever….It was nothing I was able to understand)
I smelled an awfully strong skunk smell, not too terribly unusual for the thicket. So, I did the proper thing and ignored.
I shuffled him back into bed, then did the zombie shuffle back to bed myself… 4:10 am seemed to early to wake up today.
Upon going outside to water the garden (when I was awake for good this morning,) I discovered that a skunk was in our mudroom and tore everything apart.
er, YAY! (Humm, I wonder if the skunk tried to get in bed with the boy… He smells kinda bad, the skunk could have mistaken him for another skunk… I bet skunks would find him cute..)
At least I’m well rested.
Seriously, who else gets skunks in their house? Honestly?
How did that skunk know I was not going to wake up and kill it?
Moreover, how did the skunk get in the door?
Hopefully the 10 hours of smell, er sleep has done me some good and I can tackle the day, wrestle it to the ground and get all my shit done (and clean up the mudroom.) I do not remember the last time I slept so long. I don’t think my brain & body know what to do.
I wonder what he thinks of the rancid smell round here?
The projected high temperature here today is 92F! (to that I say ‘What the eff’ crazy!)
On the bright side, perhaps these reach full bloom, and eliminate the stench.
If the computer holds up (stays on) I’ll put up the rest of the photos I took of the garden this morning, over on the Flickr, in my (sadly lacking) Garden set.
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I can happily say I’ve never had a skunk in my house and we have pretty much always lived in the country. Bless your heart. Well, atleast you are well rested for the clean up. And what a life with the flowers & blooms, so very very beautiful. I think the cold snap got all of the lilacs around here.
May 25th, 2007 | #
Skunk thing 1: When my sister lived in Diamond Hts, they had a skunk do his thing in the middle of the night in the garage. They called the fire department, they thought the house was burning down from the smell…
The fire department said, “we get that a lot.”
Skunk thing 2: we were camping at sonoma lake…and my dumb X was eatin chicken wings and tossin the bones into the bushes. Middle of the night our dog, Mr Jones (RIP) goes f crazy and runs into the bushes, then he comes back to where we were sleeping and walked all over our crap and layed down. then we got up and promptly freaked out as he had buckets of skunk funk all over his head and shoulders and was trying to wipe it off onto our bedding… this was like at 2am…so we take him to the bathrooms and wash him with shampoo, toothpaste and nothing works… got some fels napthaa soap the next day and that dint work either, rode home in the car with all the windows down sufferin. man that was fun…
Skunk thing 3: rode the skunk train…
Skunk thing 4: saw a girl in the Castro years ago, lovely wavy black hair and a white stripe from her crown to the back of her neck. that looked cool…
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May 25th, 2007 | #
I’ve never had a skunk in my house, but I do have a good skunk story (because don’t we all love our skunk stories?). Howie took the dog out one night at 2am because he HAD to go out. (I’m sure he smelled skunk). While on the leash, two feet from Howie’s hand, a skunk got the dog right in the face. I think the commotion woke me up, and I came downstairs to use the bathroom. Howie was in the kitchen yelling that the dog got skunked and he almost got it too!!!! I kept asking “Where’s the dog?” and he just said, “didn’t you hear, I almost got skunked!” Finally, he told me he let the dog off the leash in the house and we found him on the sofa, rubbing his face on the cushions, trying to get the stench off. NOT fun to have fresh skunk on the sofa!
Howie went out to the all-night pharmacy to buy some baking soda (a mix of baking soda, soap and water is the best to get the smell out) and he waved down a police car to ask him what pharmacy was open all night and I think the cop thought he was up to no good, all smelly and such, wanting to rip off the pharmacy or something.
We can laugh about it now, but at the time all I wanted to do is cry.
So remember, you’re going to have one hell of a skunk story to tell. And try the mixture of baking soda, soap and water (get the specifics off the net) to clean everything and get the stench out. Good luck!
May 25th, 2007 | #
i hope your fiber didn’t absorb the stinky? apple cider vinegar will also help with the stink. your garden pictures are great.
May 25th, 2007 | #
Mmmmm, lilacs. I’m totally jealous. My lilacs hardly bloomed this year. I used to live in Rochester, NY where they had a lilac festival every year, and it was amazing.
May 25th, 2007 | #
What a story! I always thought skunks were kind of cute. if only they didn’t smell. Nice to see pictures of flowers and not snow
May 25th, 2007 | #
The thing with skunk smell is if you are really close to it (I’m thinking when it was under our porch right next to our bedroom, but inside the house is probably more so) it goes beyond the typical skunk smell into something that makes you want to throw up.
92 in Vermont, right? WTF? It’s going to be a long summer and I think I mean that literally.
May 26th, 2007 | #
My dog got skunked too, but I had the presence of mind to leave her outside while I went out to get deskunk stuff. The clerk so graciously informed me that I needed deskunking too. The recipe my vet gave me: 1/4 cup baking soda, 1 quart hydrogen peroxide, small squirt of your favorite liquid soap. It worked quite well, I even mixed up more to spray my walls because the damn smell is invasive. I will warn you though: hydrogen peroxide is freakin’ damn cold! Bad enough to stink like a skunk, but then to stand nekkid in the shower and pour that stuff over my head??? Eeeeeee yawww! And here’s a link to why the baking soda, hydrogen peroxide recipe is supposed to work better than other recipes: http://www.harmonyanimalwellness.com/UsefulInfoPages/deskunk.html
Scroll down to the Note part.
May 26th, 2007 | #
The oldtime cure for asthma attacks was to keep skunk glands in a bottle: uncork and whiff as needed. Isn’t it nice to know it’s useful? (um…)
May 26th, 2007 | #
Oh, oops, saw too late, needed to correct that–moved my blog, the old link’s broken. There. Now it’s right!
May 26th, 2007 | #
You’ve been tagged with “7 memes”. Rules on my blog.
May 26th, 2007 | #
A skunk. In your house. Good heavens. You know that’s a cute image, aside from the stink. I always wanted to keep a pet skunk (de-stinkified, of course!), they’re just cute little critters.
May 28th, 2007 | #
my sister once heard a commotion on her porch and opeened the door to find a skunk running around with a small jar stuck over it’s head. Sorry I don’t remember the rest of the story. Hopefully, a lot of imaginative people read this. Also, one got under my house and died once. Things can always get worse it seems.
May 29th, 2007 | #