skunks......

ok, so skunk mating season has come around again.....and so now the aroma of skunk briefly replaces the odor of smoke when i walk up to the road to get the newspaper........the smell of the candle...that headshop kind of smell is fading somewhat.....i have plans to cook corned beef and cabbage today, in hopes of replacing all of the above with the strong scent of food....maybe i will start work on my onion soup for book club........a nice onion/garlic undertone would be a pleasant change to what we have now...........yesterday on my way to and from work i couldn't shake faint traces of smoke....i figured out that the satchel i dragged out of the closet to hold all of the stuff i picked up at the conference was the culprit.......the fabric had absorbed soot/smoke...alas this is unwashable.......i may have to throw it on the funeral pyre that i have in mind for those things that cannot be purified any other way......but that would involve yet more smoke.........must be another......non-aromatic way.........or maybe the skunk needs a nice big black satchel.....he probably can't smell anything under the circumstances.......