The Skunks Are Out!! The Skunks Are Out!!

Tuesday night is skunk night, at least up here on the Fletcher Road. Last night got a call about 10 p.m. from our neighbor, that the dog had an encounter with a skunk. Not sure what they used to deodorize him, but the lights were on for a while outside. Would say it was not the perfect end to the day for them.

I think that some people in the neighborhood may put out their trash with some garbage in it on Tuesday nights ready for Wednesday and the skunks must have trash day marked on their calendar. I remember when I lived down where Ed Paquin lives in the early 1960s and we used to keep our garbage in Kay & Adolph Hoben's barn. We used to heat the house with a kerosene pot burner and kept our kerosene in their barn also. They didn't have a light switch, so when I went in and it was dark, used to have to walk in about 5 feet or so and pull the string to light the light. More often than not, when the light came on, I would come face to face with a skunk and my heart would go ka-thump right down into the soles of my shoes.

Skunks are near the top of my list for animals I don't want to come in contact with.

There used to be lots of skunks walking around the village back in those days, don't know if that is still true or not. They appeared to live in or under the old buildings.