Stripey, furry, fluffy, stinky friends on the C&O Canal early mornings.

[Dirt]

If you commute using the C&O canal, you may want to be careful in the very early mornings. I met a family of skunks having a drink in the canal just up past lock #6 this morning. Luckily we all avoided each other. it was pitch black and quite a bit before dawn when I rolled through. I smelled them about 45 seconds before I caught them in my light.

Rock on and stay not stinky.

Dirt.

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[Certifried]

@Dirt 33128 wrote:

Rock on and stay not stinky.

Dirt.

time to get a bubble machine! Those do remove skunk scent, right?

When my oldest was about 8, he took the trash out. Sitting in the trash cans, of course, was a family of skunks. He came running in to the house yelling that he’d been sprayed. The stench was SO strong, it took a good 15-20 seconds to even register it. It took about a week to get the smell out of everything. I had to throw away a lot of my BDUs (army camo uniform) and other clothes because the stink just wouldn’t come out of them. If you’ve never been sprayed or been around someone that has, consider yourself very lucky. It’s amazingly awful.

[KelOnWheels]

@Dirt 33128 wrote:

Rock on and stay not stinky.

Dirt.

Words to live by.

[Dirt]

I had a dog that got skunked once. He wasn’t a happy pooch.

[eminva]

@Dirt 33189 wrote:

I had a dog that got skunked once. He wasn’t a happy pooch.

Yes, this happened to my dog . . . the day before my wedding.

Liz

[Dirt]

@eminva 33190 wrote:

Yes, this happened to my dog . . . the day before my wedding.

AWESOME!!!! Stuff like that makes life wonderful…. at least a decade after it happens.

[dasgeh]

@eminva 33190 wrote:

Yes, this happened to my dog . . . the day before my wedding.

Was the dog in the wedding?

[eminva]

@dasgeh 33212 wrote:

Was the dog in the wedding?

No — she was a super hyper just-beyond-puppy at that point, so even if we’d been so inclined, we probably would have dismissed the idea. If I recall correctly, she was going to the kennel a couple of days later while we went on our honeymoon, so we just got her in early and outsourced the clean up job.

Liz

[Dirt]

@eminva 33215 wrote:

No — she was a super hyper just-beyond-puppy at that point, so even if we’d been so inclined, we probably would have dismissed the idea. If I recall correctly, she was going to the kennel a couple of days later while we went on our honeymoon, so we just got her in early and outsourced the clean up job.

Wedding photos!!!

Sorry… what were we talking about??? Oh yeah… stinkies.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@Dirt 33222 wrote:

Wedding photos!!!

Sorry… what were we talking about??? Oh yeah… stinkies.

I hope that’s the bride. Otherwise, faux paws wearing white.

[dasgeh]

Speaking of bad influences, as we left Rocklands on Saturday, my two-year-old said that she wanted to spend more time with our new friends (Pete, Mark, Megan, Kim, ). She wanted to invite you over after the nap. I believe the invitation was conditioned on bringing the leftover mac-and-cheese…

[Dirt]

@dasgeh 33236 wrote:

Speaking of bad influences, as we left Rocklands on Saturday, my two-year-old said that she wanted to spend more time with our new friends (Pete, Mark, Megan, Kim, ). She wanted to invite you over after the nap. I believe the invitation was conditioned on bringing the leftover mac-and-cheese…

Your 2-year-old was so amazingly beyond cute that we’ll bring her mac and cheese. That was a lot of fun.

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