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skunk…

17 Monday May 2021

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this morning, as I was reading in the garden, a small skunk darted under the gate from the back lane, along the sidewalk, and out to the driveway…

it was way too quick for a photo, yikes… I had smelled what I thought were coffee grounds when I woke up and wondered where the scent had come from… now I know…

reminded me of the time we were camping and a skunk sauntered through the campsite as we were sitting by the fire…

the girls jumped on top of the picnic table while I sat still as it wandered along under the table, by my feet, and then out of the site…

I thought if it was going to spray us, standing on the table wouldn’t help, lol…

this time I did go and close the garage door so if it came back it wouldn’t go in there…

Camping 2019, Day 4…

10 Wednesday Jul 2019

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well, the excitement carried on last night… as we were getting ready for bed we almost walked into the kitchen tent where a skunk had taken up residence… we hadn’t taken out the garbage;-)…

it had started raining at 3 pm yesterday afternoon and it didn’t stop until 7:30 this morning… soggy…

I was a bit tentative about going into the tent to make tea when I got up,lol… happily it was gone… I spent the next half hour cleaning up the garbage that was strewn all over…

when everyone else got up we had a lovely breakfast and packed our snack bag before heading down to the boat launch…

we prepped our minnows ahead of time… apparently they should be dried out with salt…

we took a friend of the boys’ and had a great time…

only caught two fish but lots of fun was had… at the end we were fishing from the front of the boat and swimming from the back, lol…

once back at our site, everyone played a game on one of their phones;-)… very unusual as the normal pattern is for everyone to play on their own device…

fun to watch…

supper and a campfire and then early to bed as there were no naps today…

Nutimik, day five…

15 Tuesday Aug 2017

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our final day of camping…

we woke up at 5 am to the sound of a critter under the camper trying to eat something… it was a skunk and it was trying to devour the chocolate cookies which we had missed putting away along with the marshmallows last night… not sure if we breathed for the thirty minutes it wandered around the campsite…


I got up around 7:30 and spent a quiet time enjoying my tea, reading and thinking of all the great moments over these five days…


once everyone was up, the last meal we cooked on the campfire was chicken and bannock…


packed up the camper, dropped the boat at a friend’s seasonal site and headed home in three vehicles filled with very worn out individuals…

back in the house by 3:30 and busy unpacking and organizing supper and tomorrow’s lunch for work…

had an awesome time and made lots of wonderful memories…

creatures…

22 Saturday Aug 2015

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after supper last night at the campsite, all the boys and dogs went for a walk to the beach to catch frogs…

it was dark and nearly eleven when a skunk came to visit we three women as we sat around the campfire…

one ran into the tent, another climbed on top of the picnic table… I sat in my chair as the skunk came and sniffed my toes before moseying along to the next site…

was going to take a picture but decided not to in case it got nervous and sprayed, lol…

at 1 am it started to rain… at about 2:30 the thunder and lightning show started… shortly after that lightning blew the electricity at the site with a huge bang… for two hours the light flashed, thunder rolled and rain poured down… can’t even think of a time when I was in the midst of such a storm… made for a long night…

this morning we saw geese at the beach when we went for our cell phone connection fix…

  
had a lovely breakfast cooked on the fire…

  
bacon, pancakes and eggs was wonderful… soon after that the heavens opened again and it poured…

we gave up, packed, and headed home… saw a mommy deer and her twins as we left the campground…

  
now we are back in the city, camping out at my daughter’s new house which is pretty much an empty construction zone, lol…

and have two dogs laying here keeping us company…

  
gonna make s’mores soon…

wildlife…

10 Monday Aug 2015

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last night I spent an hour on the ground looking up at the stars… what a great ending to my camping trip… below is the birthday boy and his mom…

  
he and I spotted the space station and two satellites… we checked out some constellations and talked about the Perceids meteor shower which they should be able to see during the week…

during the night there were skunks, raccoons and even a wolf wandering around… my daughter and I didn’t sleep so well with all the wildlife visits, but my son-in-law slept through it all, lol…

after breakfast we spent some time at the beach and fishing… watched a bald eagle sitting on the top of a tree across from the beach, which was one of the few places where you could usually connect with the Internet… the campsites were not so good for that… 

  
my daughter and I headed home around 4:30… about half way here the phone started to beep and ping as Facebook, Instagram and all my other apps started to reconnect, lol… 

stopped at the Half Moon for a burger and shared a few fries and onion rings…

watered my plants and watched a lovely dragonfly on the window’s edge…

 
had a great time, but happy to be home… not expecting any wildlife bothering me tonight…