Tim has been working away on his truck. He has been installing the $800 part and it has been raining like crazy so he has the truck partially pulled into the garage so that he can stay dry as he works.
Last night, he came in for supper (ham and spinach quiche, a new recipe, yummo). When he was done, he strapped a headlamp on and headed back down to the garage. He was nearly done and wanted to work a little more.
I was cleaning up supper, when the door opened just moments later and he walked back in. "I am done for a while."
Remember that skunk I saw a while back? He was at the catfood dish. In the dim, I thought we had a new cat. He spun around and waddled off.
Since then, we have noticed he has returned from time to time by his faint but distinctive scent. We haven't actually seen him. We pondered what to do about it. Since skunks are nocturnal, we feed the cats in the morning now and just give them a smaller meal at night.
I had just fed them that meal just before it got dark while our own supper was cooling. When Tim walked down, there was the skunk having himself a small smackeral with the cats. He looked completely at ease, and made no move to leave.
Tim stood there a bit surprised, taking the scene by the light of his headlamp. After a shocked moment, he decided that he should make the move to leave.
Moreover, when he opened the house door later, he said "There's a possum on the porch!"
I said, "Possum the cat?"
"No," he said. "Possum the possum."
And lo, the man whose great joy is watching the deer and turkeys out of the front window sounded very grumpy.
Critters are feeling very welcome at your new spread.
ReplyDeleteYou will have a whole crowd of critters coming for dinner at your house! ;)
ReplyDeleteThe picture is me trying to get up, just imagine at almost 81 me doing that. I need to crawl to something solid and use that to get up. The critters will stay around, I am sure; you feed to well for them to leave.
ReplyDeleteMaybe he will someday find a deer on the porch.
ReplyDeleteThat quiche sounded tasty, I think you're inspiring me. And reading about your critters, haha. Sure does take me back to the '70s in our farmhouse. We got a skunk once in our basement, sent our cat downstairs to scare it off. Our scaredy-cat rain right back up those steps
ReplyDeleteI love watching the turkeys, little dinosaurs. Deer I can live without, not that anyone cares what I think. Possums eat ticks so they're not all bad. You do have a lot of nature there.
ReplyDeleteSkunks have a special place in my heart. When I was a teenager I had a fixed and descented male who was the sweetest thing ever!!! Even fixed and descented he had a very slight odor, but you had to practically bury your nose in his fur--lol! Luckily he LOVED baths. :)
ReplyDeleteDebby's zoo!
ReplyDeleteI don't trust skunks. Our wild life rehabilitation picks up skunks and has never had a problem.
ReplyDeleteBears, mountain lions, coyotes and skunks. And people are afraid of our spiders and wildlife.
ReplyDeleteNo mountain lions here. Bobcats are the biggest cat here...and they are not really all that big. Check out Allison's blog, though. The had a mountain lion in there back yard. Personally, that would have scared the mess out of me.
DeleteWell, we've got Coyotes, Javelinas, Mule Deer, and the occasional Mountain Lion in our back yard here in Tucson, but mercifully no Skunks. Clearly a critter rich environment in both places.
ReplyDeleteOh, I LOVE that photo. We have a skunk and we don't even feed him. He likes to walk back and forth across my front porch at night. We can see him on our security camera. We are VERY careful if we have to open the door at night.
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