Help, my neighborhood is being invaded by skunks

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Now an afterthought about my trip to Italy. We traveled from one end of the country to the other. One thing that I noticed was that there wasn’t any litter. Of course one reason could be that they don’t have the fast food places we have. Here at home I don’t have to travel one mile to see mounds of litter.

But that is not the case in all parts of our country. There are many cities and areas that are litter free. Here, we have a few bad apples that don’t appreciate the natural beauty we have, and they abuse it.

But Italy doesn’t get off scott free. I have never seen as much graffiti as we saw there. The city of Bolonga is covered with it. There didn’t seem to be a building, a wall or anything that didn’t have spray paint on it. That was as ugly as our litter.

I could get some argument on this, but I think our Italian food is better than theirs. Our chefs have taken their original dishes and improved on them. I know for sure they don’t know how to make a good cup of coffee. I love pizza and pasta, but enough is enough! I didn’t have one, but as we passed by a McDonald’s, the smell was so good.

Speaking of smells, we have a skunk epidemic in our neighborhood. Just this weekend a little black and white creature trotted between our house and our neighbor’s.

A few weeks ago there were several sightings and our neighborhood consulted a firm to set out traps. The first night they caught three skunks. The next night one was run over on the street next to ours.

Then a few days passed and another skunk was hit by a vehicle. We knew by the smell that number five was gone.

This morning Mark White showed us a picture of a skunk that he took of one on his back porch this week.  He lives a couple of miles from us. Others in the area are reporting seeing them.

As if that wasn’t enough either we have had an invasion of stink bugs. Please, I need a case of air freshener.