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Thursday, April 11, 2002
More grave matters 
| | The stink got worse, and flies seemed to be concentrated over another corner of the deck — in this case where the boards were nailed rather than screwed to the joists. It took us all morning to pry up enough boards to locate the well-rotted corpse of an opossum. It wasn't as big as the coon, but a lot more dead. I feel like a coroner here. |
| | Meanwhile I can't find any Visa bills (which I need) from 2001, and the copier wants toner nobody seems to have (Toshiba 1710 toner anyone?). The paperwork may be in the only filing cabinet with a lock that won't open (I didn't even know it had a lock. What a freakin' mess. |
Poor Rocky
| | Arrived home yesterday afternoon to a cloud of flies and the smell of death rising from below the crawlspace under the deck behind the bathroom next to my office. At first I thought it was a dead rat or something, but the stink was too big. |
| | So friend Freddy and I got out some tools and pulled up two long two-by-sixes. And there, curled up against the foundation under the floor joists was: a dead racoon. Big one. Freaking huge, even without the flies. Too big and stiff to easily pull up between the joists. And very uncooperative, to put it politely. |
| | I'll spare you the gory details, but it took the rest of the afternoon to complete the extraction job, mostly because we kept stopping and walking away to get some air. |
| | Anyway, this morning the corpse is gone, but the stink is still thick. This happened in the middle of work on painting and installing shelves in my office, which continues. Disconnected computers, cabinets, books, office furniture and various technorubble are scattered around the house and out on the deck. |
| | And I have massive paperwork to finish by the last Fedex pickup. Hope nothing else dies today. |
There are responses to this message:Re: Thursday, April 11, 2002, A Zimmerman, 4/11/02; 4:15:51 PM Re: Thursday, April 11, 2002, Nicholas Einstein, 4/11/02; 10:26:23 AM Re: Thursday, April 11, 2002, Ryan Irelan, 4/11/02; 9:39:18 AM
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