Wednesday, June 14, 2006

There's a what in my window well?!?!

This afternoon, I went onto my deck to enjoy a lovely spring day, doing my devotions on my swing.  It was about 3:00 pm.  When I walked out there, I distinctly smelled skunk, which I've never minded.  I thought it was odd, though, to be smelling it in the middle of the afternoon when they are nocturnal.  I wondered idly if maybe someone had hit one during the night, although I hadn't smelled it earlier when I'd gone out.  An hour later, my daughter comes upstairs from her room and said, "The basement smells like skunk!"  We went out to the van to get my youngest daughter from school when my 5 year old son, suddenly took off around the house.  I had no idea what he was doing but he came running back, screaming, "There's a skunk in our window well!!!!"  I have to tell you I was so shocked that I just stared at him and told him to hush, over and over.  I needed to think and I didn't want the poor scared thing spraying more because a kid was screaming at the top of his lungs!        After coming home and calling first the SPCA (we don't deal in wild animals!) and then the MNR (we only deal with bears!), I ended up putting a 2 x 4 into the hole to see if it would crawl out.  It took me almost ten minutes to lower it down in there.  The poor skunk totally freaked, stomping, waving its tail, and showing its butt.  After a few hours, it still hadn't come out.  It's so cute, and I feel so bad.  It was a hot day and it must be thirsty.  I twist tied a sand pail to a mop handle and lowered some water down there.  Now, that was daring since I had to get even closer to the well than I did with the 2 x 4.      Anyway, as of 10:30 tonight, he was still in there.  I don't know what I'll do tomorrow if it doesn't come out during the night.  Of course, my husband in working extra long hours today so he has missed all the excitement.  And excitement it is!!!  The kids have been freaking out and tip toeing out there all evening to get a peek at it.  Belle wants to keep the skunk which I'm rethinking my previous "no" as she found her new fish dead tonight, right at 10:00 and way past bed time.  She sobbed like she'd lost her best friend.  After hugging her and trying my best to console her, I sent her to bed with Hunter so he could hug her and comfort her.  Where, oh where, is my husband?!?!

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