Flower

i thought it was a good idea at the time....
we keep the house and garage closed up during the hot of the day to try to keep it a bit cooler.  so last night when it started cooling down, i opened one of the garage doors, and the back people doors and turned on the ceiling fan on the covered patio.  there was a pretty good breeze and i thought why not open the back garage door a bit and let the wind blow through. 
yeah
about 9:30 or so i went out to close it, and as i came around the corner into that shed area i flipped on the light and walk towards the half opened door.  that was when i saw the black fur.  with the big white stripe down the middle and up the fluffy tail. 
i'd like to tell you  i reacted with all my normal calmness.
but we know that wasn't going to happen, you should know me better than that.
i think my screaming and running away really, really fast probably scared him more than he scared me and he never had time to stink.
so picutre if you will, butch relaxing, beer in hand, watching the nationwide race on tv, and i come racing in from the garage screaming.....SKUNK..............SKUNK...........SKUNK IN THE GARAGE!  ....SKUNK IN THE GARAGE!!!
you think he'd be used to it by now.
of course he thinks i'm crazy until he walks in there and cautiously (why take chances in case the crazy blonde is right) looks around to see the skunk on the other side of the mower. 
HA!  SEE?
at this point i'm looking through the window of the outside patio door.  way out of the line of fire (jumping up and down).  so butch backs out and comes around and says, just leave him alone, he'll go out on his own.
well, yeah, eventually!
an hour or so later he went out (with me trailing at a safe distance) and carefully looked around and of course, our little visitor had gone on his way.  we he looked around and under things with a flashlight to make sure we didn't lock the little sucker in the garage.
i think i'll make sure i put the doors down before it gets too dark from now on.  thankfully one of us didn't have to make a middle of the night run for tomato juice while the other stood nekid in the garage stinking.
and i think i pulled a leg muscle since i don't think i've moved that fast in a long time.

pirates in the castle....
skunks in the garage.