The first thing we did when I reached their house... drive up to Prescott, AZ to pull up the floor boards and clean out an old animal nest. There were two boards that were 'soft' and had a lot of give, and we were certain that the nest was under one of those. We were wrong...
Upon finding the correct board, pulling up all of the nails, and then cutting it away from the pipes.... we raised up the board to find a lovely, smelling, dessicated skunk carcass. I then proceeded to freak out my father and niece by claiming the skull almost imediately.
"You want what? You are so weird! Why do you want that nasty skull?" etc.
I won't go into everything we had to do to clear out the mess under the house. Let's just say that it was nasty. More animal poop than I knew how to identify.
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| Improvised face masks because I was having an asthma attack just looking at the mess |
However... I may have kept the skull. Just maybe. I bagged it into 7 ziplock bags so it won't smell, and I stashed it in my Dad's shed. That way it won't ever have entered my step-mom's house. Hopefully she'll forgive me for keeping it. She's under the impression at this point that I left it at the cabin.... so like I said, I'll find out if she follows my blog tonight.
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| I'll figure out how to clean it off more thoroughly after I get it home |
I've been trying to find time to work on my literature and research proposal in between pulling up floor boards, cleaning out dead skunks, gluing broken things, figuring out how to sew a vinyl bag for a scooter thing... etc.
I'm going to stop writing this and go back to doing that now.
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