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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

skunk.

Around the 4th of July, my dad mentioned to Dewy that while mowing the lawn he had seen a skunk. He was pretty sure the skunk was hiding out somewhere in the yard, and his best guess was the garden. A few days while we were there, Dewy and my dad casually looked around the garden area in around some bushes in the yard to find the little weasel. No luck.

A few weeks went by and Austin was outside with his friend Levi swimming. When they were done, they got out of the pool, and like good little boys they cleaned up after themselves and began to close the pool cover. Now, the pool cover goes underground when you uncover the pool and rolls up in a nice big hole under the diving board. As they were covering the pool, the skunk popped out, BOTTOM FIRST, and got stuck with it's head caught between the pool cover and the lid to the hole that hid the cover. It began to walk like it was on a tredmil, the boys wigged out (like 9 year old boys do) and ran inside screaming for mom. She ran outside, saw the skunk stuck, and as soon as the pool was covered the skunk jumped back into the hole where the cover sleeps while we swim. They hurried and uncovered the pool again to fill up that hole so the skunk couldn't get out.

Mom calls Dewy to come kill it after work. Dewy calls me thrilled he gets to shoot something. "Babe, I need you to do me a huge favor! I need .22 caliber pellets from CalRanch... NOT SHELLS! Pellets... can you please do that? Can you?" He sounded like a kid asking for a bike for Christmas... I got the pellets. Easy Peasy... didn't even have to ask for help...

After Dewy got off work he came home and changed and we ran over to Mom's to do some exterminating. Dewy brought 2 of his guns, one for him and one for Dad. The looks on the golfer's faces as they went by our backyard and saw two men patrolling with guns was priceless... No worries gentlemen... we simply have a skunk problem! Move along please...

Here are pictures of the whole event...
The two hunters crouch, ready for their prey to emerge from beneath the pool cover... nothing comes out... kind of anticlimatic...
The two little boys helping cover and uncover the pool, Dewy looking for somewhere else it might be, AND DING DING DING... they find a hole
Dad grabs a rake to pull the cover farther off while Dewy grabs a ladder to climb in order to have a better view and shot
Hooray we got him! Dewy climbed down and said to dad, "Put one in 'im Brad!" Dad didn't even twice before climbing up and shooting him too... Here is the video of the actual killing:

Lucky for us, the skunk had his tail up underneath him so when he sprayed it sprayed on himself. It stunk like no body's business though after... Dewy grabbed a hoe and a rake and hoisted the skunk out of the hole. He took like 12 pictures of his kill. Poor guy... He has a creepy face. They loaded him into a big trashbag, and off he went into the church dumpster.
Calm down, they were picking up the trash from the dumpster in the morning anyway....

1 thoughts:

Pyper said...

This story is hilarious!