Amazon asked me to rate the purchase, and I wrote - "Couldn't have possibly worked better! We haven't seen (or smelled) the skunk since I ordered it."
Late last week, one of our neighbors noticed a guy driving down the flood control ditch. He stopped about a hundred yards south of the road and put up a sign.
Well, that certainly didn't seem right. Why post a sign where the chances of anyone seeing it are slim to none?
Sure the fellow was up to something nefarious, John retrieved the sign and posted it beside the road. Then he posted a notice about it on our neighborhood Facebook page.
The sign was a notice of public meeting about an organizational meeting for a municipal utility district. We are not in a MUD, and don't want to be, so it generated quite a bit of concern.
Turns out, the fellow had been posting the notice exactly where it should have been - at the northern border of the proposed utility district. The folks who are developing the property just south of our subdivision are trying to get one - MUD 517 - set up prior to building anything.
How dare you tell me that I must
Take a vaccine I do not trust
Well, I've had a couple of days to ride my new trike and do minor adjustments. I learned the first time out that two miles on the first day was a little ambitious, but I made it, and, so far, everything is going well.
I was worried at first because I thought that the trike had a tendency to veer to the left.
I have learned that it does - and it doesn't. All the drive comes from the right rear wheel, so when you start up it is the only one turning for a fraction of a second, and it tends to push the trike toward the left. Once you are rolling and all the wheels are turning, a sort of gyroscope effect kicks in and the trike rolls straight.
That's a picture of my birthday present.
I've spent yesterday and today getting it put together. There are a couple of finishing touches, reflectors and such, that I haven't installed yet, but I was able to take it for a test run and it looks like it will be just what I was wanting.
Petunia the skunk must have heard us discussing how to get rid of her.
We haven't seen (or smelled) her since we decided to order a trap.
The trap came - I baited it with tuna fish and left it out overnight - nothing.
