Messing around and ended up with a Skunk!

Tonight after work I had to do some errands in town, so of course I wanted to see if I could find any treasures at our local thrift store. Now it’s not that we don’t have enough stuff in our house already, but heck.. who knows right? Well, I did find this old mop bucket. I snatched it up right away, and feeling quite smug that I got the best deal of the day. But when I went to pay for it I realized that maybe not everyone thought it was as cool as I did. The lady behind the counter just smiled at me and I think she was thinking that this was the easiest way for her to make $15 all week. But I don’t care, and I put it in the car to take to our house.

Not sure what I'm going to do with my bucket

Not sure what I’m going to do with my mop bucket

When I got home, Daryl was working on the corn head for the combine. He’s hoping to get out in the field this Saturday if the corn’s fit. As for me, I decided to make ‘grab soup’. I started out with chicken (yea.. you guessed it!) and then some of the chicken broth, then whatever we had in the fridge or cupboard. Into this soup went carrots, celery, some noodles, a packet of some rice stuff in the cupboard because I used all my good rice last week, and then some butter. It really didn’t taste too bad. I made some fresh bread in the oven, so all in all it wasn’t a bad supper. While this all was cooking and baking, I decided to go for a run. Now I was messing around in town after work, so everything go a little later than I had hoped. But no big deal right? I put on my running shoes, grabbed my music and off I went outside. I knew that I’d have some extra time before supper was ready. But just as I’m leaving, the sun was hitting our neighbors round bales of hay so cool, I went back inside and grabbed my camera. I took a couple of pictures of the hay and also of the clouds and then decided that I better get going because it’s starting to get dark already.

Hay bales

Hay bales

Hay bales in the field across the road from our farm

Hay bales in the field across the road from our farm

The clouds behind our house tonight

The clouds behind our house tonight

So I’m off running and thinking about the day – what I did … and what I didn’t do. How there was a bad smell of hogs in the air and you know, just stuff. Then just as I got to the end of the road and I was turning around something caught my eye. I wasn’t sure what it was, but it was hanging out in the ditch beside me. At first I thought, why is there a cat just walking around so slow? Then as I got closer to get a better look –  I thought I was going to die! You know what it was? It was a HUGE skunk!  I took a deep breath and turned around and started running. Yea, good thing I had my running shoes on! And I sure hope no one was watching me because I kept looking back over my shoulder to see if the skunk was coming after me. It was the best motivator for running that I ever had! And when I finally got home, I asked Daryl if he knew how big skunks get? He said they get big. Yea, he’s right on that!

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