What is that smell

I am very thankful that the sense of smell shuts down when you go to sleep. At some point in the middle of the night I woke up to the call of nature. My mouth tasted horrible and I was more disoriented than usual. It didn't take me long to fully wake up and notice the horrible smell. I thought "great one of our neighbors let their dog out and it found a skunk." I crawled back in bed and wished that I had the energy to get up and close the windows.

Last year we had a resident skunk that I swear spent the night directly under our bedroom window - which is right by my head. The smell was never this bad. Later in the morning I woke up again and this time it was not nature but the fact that I felt like I was being smothered. I was having a hard time breathing. Now I was awake enough and was determined to close the windows. I pulled up the shade to find the window closed. I walked to the other one - closed. How could the smell be this bad if the windows were closed?

The Hubby was in the bathroom getting ready for his day. He gets up an hour before I do. I asked if he had closed the windows - he said "they were never open". "Do you think the skunk might be in the house - under our bed?" He was quite certain that it was not but honestly I slowly lifted the bed skirt and peered under the bed fully expecting to see a black and white object peering back at me. I was in a panic. The other day I opened the back door that leads into our screen house (that doesn't have a roof because it broke last year and we cannot afford a new one this year) and for some reason didn't close the screen, I thought maybe during that time a skunk entered the house. It was unlikely but I am telling you this smell was so strong I thought I was being suffocated. I searched the house high and low and I have not found a skunk. The smell outside was better than inside so I opened all the windows. Our room seemed to be the worse by a mile. It was the strangest thing.

I think I have a new idea for weight loss - skunk smell. It is well past the time for breakfast in our house and neither the Hubby or myself has any desire to eat. I am not sure how well it would sell, maybe I just better stick to Liporexall and not try my hand at skunk trapping again. Several years ago I tried trapping a family of woodchucks that were living under our shed. I forgot to block the trap open at night and caught a skunk. It took me all day to release the silly creature. I threw a blanket over the cage and tried to open the door the skunk would get all upset and I would decide to "let him rest". That was before I started blogging.......