When I went out to take a picture of the garden for yesterday’s post, I saw a disturbance in the lawn. As I looked around a saw more . . . a lot more. The disturbed area looked like this:
Do you have any idea what it is? I didn’t the first few times that I saw it, but eventually I discovered the culprit. Have you figured it out yet?
I noticed movement on the lawn one night and when I investigated I saw the little fellow that was doing the digging. That’s how I know that it’s a skunk, or skunks. One surfeit (or is it “stench”) of this year’s babies grew up living beneath our garage. That kind of adds an imperative to living in harmony with nature, don’t you think so?
I can understand why a collection of skunks is called a surfeit. Seems to me that even one is an over abundance of them, but they really do have their place in the natural order. As long as it’s not in my neighbors’ hen houses. They don’t like that. Not even a little bit.
From Surfeit to Paucity
Today is Sylvia’s father’s birthday– his 95th. We’ll celebrate by meeting with other members of the family that live in Michigan. We’ll enjoy a meal together and have cake and ice cream. We’ll take a short hike and talk and just enjoy being together. (They really are great folks and it is very pleasant to be with them.)
As the sun is setting we’ll load up the vehicles and head for home. We’ll be feeling good about another birthday for Dad and another happy gathering of the clan.
The publicist had a skunk raise its kits under her house in NJ. It was a bit odoriferous until they left. Fortunately we see very few skunks here…
We have had them under the mud room. Like yours, these were only a bit odoriferous, but eventually they moved on. 😀
I’m beginning to think I’ve got a skunk problem rather than an opossum problem. Or maybe it’s a “nature” problem. Either way, my lawn has looked like that this summer and I continue to have a munchy visitor to my pond each night. I’m hoping for a colder winter so some of these guys move to Happy Skunk Village in Florida.
Happy Birthday to Sylvia’s Dad!! I hope you had a nice time at the party. 🙂
Could be that you do have a skunk problem. They are nocturnal creatures. 😉
We did have a very good day. We left the park as the rain started. :rain: Within a few minutes it was very heavy, but we were in the car headed for home. :yea:
I thought it might be a skunk. They scrape for grubs. Where is the paucity? You had lots of good times- maybe only a few people?
I expected you to know it was a skunk. I think I’d rather have the skunks getting the grubs than to have moles working the area. 😀
Ah, you show insight. :clap: One sister, who lives in Florida was absent, and we lost a sister-in-law a few years back. We would have loved to have them there.
If even one skunk comprises a surfeit, one missing family member comprises a paucity. 😥
You have had a wonderful day.
Ah my friend, every day is as wonderful as I let it be. 😀
Too right. One speciman would be a surfeit of skunk.
A wonderful way to spend a day, to celebrate a 95th birthday. Y’all have fun now!
And yet the skunk has its place in the natural order of things. I prefer that not be in the immediate vicinity of my home. 🙂 The outlook today is for cool and rainy. 🙁 , which is not good for the arthritis. :no: