Skunk, anyone?

We had a little excitement last week. We caught a skunk in our live trap! Now, we expect to catch critters like possums and raccoons, and even the occasional feral cat. Once we even caught a young buzzard. We generally load the trap into the truck and carry the animals off to a new location. The buzzard, we just opened the trap and propped the trip to where he could lumber on out on his own. But a skunk!

We were given all kinds of advice about getting rid of the animal. None of them seemed humane and I won’t even mention them here. Son decided to try it his way.

He eased up to the trap and just talked calmly to the skunk. He didn’t make any sudden or threatening moves, and just kept talking in a low voice. The skunk turned and faced him as if listening. He stayed calm enough that Son was able to open the trap, prop the trip, and let the skunk go on his or her way. Son said the animal was the biggest one he’s ever seen, about the size of the es 335 at Musician's Friend. That trap will hold a medium sized animal, so if a skunk was big enough to nearly fill the trap, he must have been a monster!

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Fantasy or reality?

Ok. I'm not the biggest football fan on the planet. Sorry. However, my sister just loves football, especially when it's the Razorbacks playing. Well, what do you expect? We live in Arkansas! I do love basketball and baseball, though, and always watch the World Series if I can at all. You know how it is - work gets in the way of recreation.

But now comes Fantasy Football in the form of the AFFL (American Fantasy Football League). Now, as near as I can figure, no one actually gets out in the dirt and grass and plays this game. It's all strictly an online game. You do have to pay to be a member of the site, but you also get the opportunity to win prizes along with selecting team members, buying teams, drafting players, filling the roster, and all things similar that have to do with owning a football team.

Fantasy football works with points scored by players based on their real-life performance in a game on the same day as the fantasy game. I suppose the honest to goodness football fans out there already knew that, but I had to look it up!