...geez, a mimosa would have hit the spot last night.....while I sat is a semi-broiling home!  My A/C compressor went out after a mere 12 years!  Hopefully, after tomorrow, we'll all be cool again...including my fur-family! 

Several years back, while walking about the estate, I noticed digging around the foundation. Wondering what the house had attracted, I shoved the water hose down the hole and turned the water on. Several minutes and who knows how many hundreds of gallons of water later a very wet and agitated fat "cat" came crawling out. I quickly noticed a white stripe running down the cat's back and left the area, stopping only long enough to turn off the water. I contacted city animal control, who told me they would provide me with a trap. Told me I could pick it up between 9:00 AM and 4:30 PM, Mon-Fri at the shelter. After several discussions with people at increasing higher levels of government, explaining that I was required to be at work during those hours and they had people driving around in trucks all over the city, we agreed they would drop one off at my house. Over the next week I caught every cat in the neighborhood, one really dumb one 3 times. On Saturday morning the skunk was in the trap and not happy about it. I knew it as soon as I came out to get the paper, it was close by. I called the city and announced "Mission accomplished", come do your duty. A fellow came out and dispatched the skunk and carried it and the trap off. Before he left he told me the skunk probably left her "kids" in the den under my house. I filled in the hole with dirt and placed bricks on top. A few weeks later the smell was completely gone. Once in awhile something digs slightly around the bricks, but (knock on wood) no more holes under the house. 

Just wanted to let everyone know that I got a chance to sample the Coffee Bar at Sandy's new home last night.  She is learning to make quite the Mimosa.  I told her to keep up the good work, I would be willing to sample anything she wants me to. Also, the work they have done on the new house is wonderful.  It is really looking great!!!!!

DWF-bUTTERFINGERS big stick (don't know her name) was working today but the little stick (THE MONEY STICK) to finish the job was ice cold and couldn't find the hole. Pistol Pete Gray and I had our way with the Botox Kid and that other lad from Oak Cliff McGee. c u on 10/31 my friend !!!  

Well Rick, I hope I beat JS to this as well. Possums do in fact have a pouch (much like a pocket).

Boy, Southworth, you're really shoveling it today. It makes me kind of miss your old website.