But let's back up a bit.
Andrina and I have had a whirlwind recent couple of months. This past few months have seen:
- Our house in Kamloops packed into storage containers (many thanks to many people for their enormous help)
- Andrina moved to California and started her new job with Marcum LLP
- Andrina and I became members of the Raider Nation
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| Andrina really got into Raider football |
- We packed my apartment and moved into a bungalow in Menlo Park
- With much help, I loaded a moving truck and drove the 21 hours to Menlo Park to fully move into our little house
- Kelsey joined us for a wonderful Christmas vacation
- We brought in the New Year with the Kuromi tradition of a delicious Fondue
It's been a pretty wild ride this past few months, exhausting to say the least. So, it was with great anticipation of rest that we settled into this new house. Upon moving in we noticed a musty/funky smell but we dispatched it Andrina's love of candles a couple fires in the fireplace. The smell was gone but the rest we hoped for eluded us. The neighbour's dog woke up at all hours of the night with incessant barking and Ghost was constantly pacing. Something was definitely "up." In a desperate want of sleep, Ghost was kicked out into garage a couple nights back. Just as I was drifting off, I was woken by a commotion in the back yard. Evidently, Ghost figured out the dog door and was rustling through the bushes after something. Well, with that rustling came a wall of smell wafting through the window. This was a smell that burned the nostrils.
We have a skunk.
It turns out a skunk had taken up residence underneath the house. Ghost was able to find it anytime it moved below the house which caused the skunk to get scared and spray. The house then stunk to high heaven. We lit candles and burned fires and then the cycle repeated.
As it turns out, skunks like dog food. Yesterday, with great trepidation, I opened up the crawlspace to underneath the house and started building a Hansel and Grettle style trail for the skunk into our back yard. I then sealed up the other entrances to the underside of the house with cardboard and rags of ammonia (skunks don't like ammonia). And then we waited and sealed up the house once the food was gone.
So with very little anticipation of success, we proceeded to enjoy our New Years Eve. And with much thanks to wine, sleep came for both us and Ghost.
So, here's to a new year. We hope it will be a little less action packed and a little more restful.
