Happy Monday to you
Happy Monday dear reader
Happy Monday to you!
I am so excited about today’s potluck. I have food! Left-overs, but yummy. I have cranberry and almond pasta salad with faux chicken. Not any faux chicken, but certified veggie Fri-Chik out of the can. Mmmmmm. You can’t get that from just any grocery store. I am also serving oodles of fresh fruit with marshmallow fluff and cream cheese dip. Mmmmm. Seriously people we are only going first class here.
I have written about how all God’s creatures seem to congregate around my house. Well last night was a first. This sweet creature arrived:
Huh? Is it a kitty? Is it a puppy? An armadillo wearing a fur coat?
Nope. That my friends is a skunk. A skunk curled up comfortably sleeping between my house and a very large digger toy.
Not any skunk, but the skunk that went through the dog door, ate dog food, sprayed the area and then went out to sleep on my back porch a mere 6 inches from where I took the picture through the glass door.
Hello? Are these creatures NOT reading my blog. Because I think I recently posted a lengthy list of what happened to PREVIOUS creatures who dared tread on Holly soil.
Let’s just say that he won’t be making that mistake again. Animal control came out and extracted him. Tomorrow we will find out if he has rabies. Oh goody! If he does then I will chronicle the 90 day house arrest my animals get to endure because they are NOT REGISTERED in my town. They have shots, but I didn’t fill out the proper paperwork which I am sure is going to lead to all sorts of fines. Fun stuff here at the Nirvana.
I promise the faux chicken is not skunk meat.
Regular potatoes and a VERY small watermelon.
Really now, does it get much better then the “What’s in Holly’s fruit bowl” segment?
Next time I go to Starbucks I am going to order this:
Venti, soy Chai tea latte in a cup that’s center of gravity is not at its rim, has a tight fitting lid, a cozy that doesn’t rest on the bottom of the cup and can’t be easily crushed by my bare hand in the act of being carried.
Crazy me. Wanting to actually consume my $4+ drink instead of wear it. BRING BACK THE OLD CUPS STARBUCKS.
Today the cat threw up in the living room. Rhett walked through it. Rhett had major tantrum when I removed his shoes to clean them (don’t ask. He is so attached to his shoes he wears them to bed…yes, with his PJs). I finally got him calm, cleaned his shoes and then started in on the carpet.
Ryan walks through and asks what all the commotion is about. Rhett says, “kitty puked”. *stop a minute…where did he learn that?*
Ryan says, “what is puked?” *whoa..not from Ryan!*
If you missed my road trip extravaganza, please click here.
Skunks, small watermelon, puking cats, crappy cups, a link to floating sandwiches and faux meat…
We have a friendly skunk that likes to taunt my dogs…
Depending on what kind of mood I’m in I may just let them meet in animal, so to speak. Then I remember that I would have to let them back in to the house. (Darnit!)
Not to mention that my windows would be open at that time, and after my wife finds out what I did (wives always do, why is that?), I would be living outside with said skunk. So… I digress.
Fake chicken from a can? All I can say is Yum?
Yikes. Tough times. Especially the loss of the SB chai tea. I have a love bordering on obsession for SB chai and if I spill even a drop I feel like the day is a write off!
Oh, for PETE’S SAKE. That just – I can’t help myself – stinks.
I have a searingly sad story about a very, very brave farm dog fighting off a rabid bear from my two year old brother – and then the horrifying moment the next day when my dad realized that the dog had missed her rabies shots the month before. Isn’t that the most Old Yellar thing you’ve ever heard?
Skunks and puke very interesting….
I think we need to here how you got the skunk stink out of the house. Do you use tomato juice on that also??
Fri-Chick. Lovely Fri-chick.
we had scallops last night.
you want I make you a sleeve for your starbucks? i’m sending you a picture via e-mail. it’s my new thing.
we should talk sometime.
this may be my favorite potluck so far.
Wow, that is one very varried pot luck. I like it.
We had a skunk in the yard last year…but no stinkies.
An opossum in the lawn mower shed.
Baby bunnies in a nest under our Bunny Hutch….good food gleanings.
And we are in the “burbs”.
Kitty puke…ugh.
Snorkie is addicted to his Spider Man sandals…at least he can put them on himself correctly at this point. Wears them all day…every day. Only sleeps in his lightening McQueen socks.
Finally some new stuff at my place.
Blessings, EJT
Oh, Holly, so sorry to hear of you critter issues. Those skunks…My girlfriend was away with her husband and the in-laws were watching the kids. They let the dogs out before bedtime, they came racing indoors reeking of skunk before they could stop them, they they tossed them into the garage, where both cars were sitting with windows opened…So the house, the garage, the cars, everything stunk of skunk for weeks afterward…I do live in fear of my beasts getting skunked–I know out here in the country it’s only a matter of time…
skunks and kitty puke. my world is complete now.
And summer just started….does Febreez help with skunks?!
You are living an adventure, I tell ‘ya!
I ALWAYS fear that a skunk will come through the dog door & eat the dog food in the laundry room!!! I can’t believe that happened. We keep smelling skunk almost EVERY morning around here with the windows open. Ugh. I’m just glad I didn’t find it on the patio. Well, I guess the dogs would have found it first & then we would have had another go-roud of tomato/vinegar/dish soap baths.
And register the pets? Um, never done that either. Didn’t even know you were supposed to do that. Huh?