Peppi Le Pew

When my mom was here when Mr T was born, she said we lived in a game reserve. That coming from a person who lives in Africa where game reserves abound. She was amazed at the wild animals she saw in our mid-city home. We have a security light above the playroom (Granny's room when she is here) that comes on in the night when it senses movement. It would wake my mom up at all hours. She would jump out of her bed and peer through the window, amazed at what new wild animal had come to visit. Her favorite viewing was the night she was awoken by the light to see a line of animals waiting their turn to eat our cat, Beamer's, food. The pecking order was this; the raccoon was eating the food, behind him waited the possum and behind him waited Beamer. 

She would have been more delighted than I am at our new guest; a skunk! A Good Man and I awoke one night to an almighty stench, that with all our windows and doors shut! The next morning, Carmen, who watches T for me, informed us that we had been visited by a skunk. A Good Man and I were wondering how the smell could have come into our room with all the windows shut when K decided that perhaps he had found a hole and stuck his penis through it... A Good Man and I were floored speechless by this explanation as we have never used the P word in our house, preferring instead the gentler 'willy' version. Plus, the visual of her series of events was all too much to take seriously... we moved quickly on as all good parents would. Our skunk friend came again a couple of nights later and claimed, with his spray/penis, our outdoor couch, the slide and the curtain on the gazebo. Luckily I have been able to wash it off the latter two but, sadly, the couch didn't make it. And then a couple of nights ago, on their way home after a fun night of crafting at my house, my friends saw him on his way here! They said he looked too sweet, like he thought he was on very important business... 

I wonder if he looked as sweet as T did for Halloween this year... was it a portent of things to come?