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Working Yard or Yardly Working

At night, why does it smell like skunks are walking around outside? Too many nights in a row, this is the case. At first I thought it was weird-smelling mulch from neighboring gardens.

The weather has cooled off quite a bit and it's really nice to have all the doors open and fans pulling in fresh air -- until that skunk parade seems to happen.

On Sunday I hope to go with my sister and her husband's family to Laurel Highlands or some park near it. It's a trip we make a lot of summers. I hope work doesn't prevent my going, but I can't predict yet. Just getting out in the yard chopping at the shrubs and weeds has been nice in the last few days. I'm so proud of the small progress I've made in taming the hedge and the huge Rose of Sharon bush, because I'm not great at this sort of thing. I start out roughly hacking off limbs, then the next day or so I can return and try to shape it decently. I don't have electric tools, so it's very cavewoman style.

Today I had to research to find who purchased the domain FakeNews.com, which sold at a conference for $65,000. It was a man in Sweden who seems to be a pretty awesome programmer/IT specialist. This domain of course sold for so much because of Trump and his stupid talk. A domain which is perhaps the closest to being the opposite -- RealNews.com -- is, I'm glad to say, now a site featuring news that is humane and authentic and does not simply report the latest thing at the White House. I was looking into these because we own multiple domains that are similar to both.



posted on June 25, 2018 9:54 PM ()

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I am sure we do but I don't even know if we have skunks in Fort Lauderdale--we do have alligators, boa constrictors and lizards of all kinds and sizes!!~
comment by greatmartin on June 26, 2018 8:07 AM ()
I walked across my lawn the other night and met an albino skunk on his way to the highway. A car horn kind of signaled that me made the crossing safely but many don't I think that when they stink the most. Perhaps you can survey the local roads for roadkill.
comment by jjoohhnn on June 26, 2018 6:32 AM ()
I've seen them crossing the main road, and more than once, a skunk in a yard around the block at night. Never saw an albino, though.
reply by drmaus on June 26, 2018 7:05 AM ()
No skunks around here yet, though we do get the occasional palm rat. Had to come to Florida to get an education in insects and vermin "bigger than a bread box".
comment by tealstar on June 26, 2018 5:38 AM ()
That is my #1 reason that I can't live in FL. Supersized bugs would give me convulsions.
reply by drmaus on June 26, 2018 7:10 AM ()
Isn't it something how skunk smell wafts up to the house when they walk past at night. We used to have that when we lived in Denver next to an open space. One summer I kept smelling it around one of our unattached garages, couldn't see any skunk burrowing signs. We had a family of mink that year, and I thought maybe they created a skunky odor. Then, a couple years later, we discovered the skeleton of a skunk with the fur still on it in a 5 gallon bucket in the garage - got in, couldn't get out - that accounted for that smell. More recently, the guest cabin next door smelled like a skunk had died in the crawl space under the kitchen. It took a long time for that smell to fade, and I hope it never happens again. I don't know why he had to pick there to die. And even more recently, there was a guest over there who smokes weed for medical reasons, and she smelled very skunky.
comment by traveltales on June 25, 2018 10:03 PM ()
If only someone would teach a course to suburbanites the ways of dealing with animals (and their carcasses), I'd take it.
reply by drmaus on June 26, 2018 7:15 AM ()

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