It Stinks

        It   may not be a real funny story  but kinda gave me some notoiety for the past cple days.  My house has a full basement with windowwells in the basement.  Our weather has been very irradic and apparently a skunk in the midst of a rainstorm blindly fell into one of the window wells to the basement, just below the bathroom upstairs.  Mind you the smell of skunk is not a strange thing, there are great many woodland creatures that inhabit the woods just east of the house.  Yep I live in the sticks.   My son was the 1st to notice the odor seeping from the bathroom to which he exclaimed,  "Dad, are you okay"  I assured him I was fine to which he replied  "turn the fan on the next time"    Iwas questioning his sanity when the well known smell met my nostrils full scale.  I rationalized that a skunk had been frightened in the night and had defended himself.   That evening around dark30  the smell grew even stronger, I left the house to investigste  only to find the aroma was very strong around the house and seemed to be coming from a sewer line that leads over the hill.  Wind can play strange tricks on you.   My neighbor had called to ask if on of my dogs had killed a skunk per chance ,NO.  My stepson and his new wife visited shortly and remarked that there indeed was a skunk close by,  again I perused the perimeter and again found nothing.   Saturday evening late I took our house dog for a walk to do his business and the little guy found our smelly friend.  He was about to jump in the windowwell when I stopped him and found myself looking at a very pissed of skunk.   I went to the basement and this skunk has chewed a hole through the screen and is battering the window.   Well  I tried to be helpful  and lowered a board into the window well reaching to the surface in hopes he would take the hint and climb out.  No such luck,  this morning I had to dispose of the little guy,  by lead poisoning him with a bullet.  Much to my dismay the neighbor reported the incident and the local sheriffs dept  came to investigat why I would be shooting into my basement from outside.    Needless to say I took them to the skunks final resting area and informed them next time they can get him out