Skunk Story

Since living here, I've always been surprised with how much "wildlife" we have in our urban area. We have gophers that live on the cliffs behind our house. They spend their time eating the flowers and tomatoes in our backyard and digging up the grass. They even come up to our windows, stand on their little hind legs, and peer in the window. But tonight I saw the best...or worst. I've smelled yucky skunk smell before around our house, usually in the evenings. Tonight I was going out late to check the mail. I opened the front door, stepped off the porch, looked up and there was a skunk right on the side walk. We looked at each other for a second, then I yelped and ran inside. I yelled for Jeff to come look, but by the time he got upstairs the skunk was gone. Needless to say, I didn't go out and get the mail for fear it was lying in wait to spray me. I'm just glad my kids didn't see it because I'm sure they would have ran right up to it, thinking it was a cat or something. :)