I was 1/2 to 3/4 asleep, so if it wasn’t Alan, then it was head-weather-dude Travis Meyer... at this point, the only thing I’m sure of is that it wasn’t Katie Green.
Alan observed that we're going have a week of weather “typical of the middle of July.”
It stuck me as funny, because — imagine that — it is the middle of July. So who would have thought we would have weather typical of the season?
Maybe it was funny because I was still asleep.
Joe Kelley apparently has an egg-sucking skunk near his place. It didn’t get inside, and apparently didn’t get under the house, either, because there is a nest of duck-eggs near one of the exterior doors of their house.'
I assume the problem wasn’t someone smoking some “skunk weed.”
For the uninitiated, “skunk” is “a potent strain of cannabis, grown through selective breeding and usually hydroponics, that is a cross-breed of Cannabis sativa and C. indica. Its potency ranges usually from 6% to 15% and rarely as high as 20%, compared to the average THC level in coffeehouses in the Netherlands, which is 18–19%.” The average levels of THC in marijuana sold in United States rose from 3.5% in 1988 to 7% in 2003 and 8.5% in 2006. (Source for all of this amusing nonsense: Wikipedia).
No, I don’t have any, don’t know where to get any, and as I always tell my employer, I will pee in a cup any time, and you will not find any skunk there, either. Or any other kind of weed. Or any other kind of illicit drug. And I’ve never been to the Netherlands.
Did I mention I have ADD? That’s probably important to know, when reading my blog or talking to me in person.
Q: How many kids with ADD does it take to change a lightbulb?So how to remedy the problem (Skunk, not ADD)? He’s got a “live trap” that he uses for raccoons, and with his personal Raccoon Relocation Program, he drives them 10-15 miles down the road and lets them go.
A: Do you want to go ride bikes?
Q: How many kids with ADD does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Oh, look! A puppy!
His wife said, “shoot it!” ...but he only has a .45 and a pellet gun. The .45 would be overkill, and the pellet gun... well, as he said, he’d have to “sit there all day shooting at it” to do any good with the pellet gun. A listener sent them a text message, saying use a .22, but another listener texted-in, saying not to shoot it — because skunks who are shot allegedly “explode.”
Not something you want a skunk to do. Not now, not ever.
So he decided on the trap... put a can of tuna in it (?) and decided that he would put it in the water (to sleep with da fishes, I suppose). But, he wouldn’t want to pick up the cage, and he didn’t want to lose his trap, so he decided to tie a rope to it so he could retrieve it from the water. (With a dead skunk inside?) Then he had the forethought to not leave the rope coiled by the cage. Perhaps this will be breaking news once he catches it.
Incidentally, skunk scent glands are actually “anal glands” (like small dogs have, and have to get them “expressed” by the vet when they get impacted with fluid. (That’s a contributing factor to the whole floor-scooting thing that dogs do.) They can shoot 7-15 feet, and can be detected by even an otherwise poorly-performing human nose up to a mile away.
Fascinating fact: The chemical in skunk funk is seleno-mercaptan, and the stink in natural gas is ethanethiol, which is also a mercaptan. Hmmm. Wow, mercaptains are even responsible for a class of wine faults caused by an unintended reaction between sulfur and yeast, as well as the “skunky” odor of beer which has been exposed to ultraviolet light. Mercaptans also have the convenient ability to bind strongly to skin proteins. Who knew?
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