It’s 10 am. Let me share my Christmas Eve morning with you all. 8:00- hear a commotion outside. Have a live skunk in a trap under the carport. Neighbors’ dogs have found the trapped skunk, and pissed it off. My whole house smells of skunk. 8:15- begin making Almond Joy cupcakes. Discover I forgot almonds. They become Mounds cupcakes. Mixed and in the oven, and on to the coconut topping. I need CONDENSED milk, NOT evaporated milk. The cupcakes come out in 8 minutes, so no time to run to the store. Now I turn into a mad scientist, grab a container of white frosting to use in place of condensed milk, remove the cupcakes, add the screwed-up coconut to the tops and put them back in the oven for another 12 minutes. 8:30- while the “disaster cupcakes” are cooking, I place a cup of chocolate chips in a baggie and into a bowl of water to melt and use for drizzle. I microwave at 20-second intervals. After about 6 intervals, I am thinking this doesn’t seem to be working, and I leave the baggy in a bowl of hot water. The cupcakes are done, they look like crap. 8:45- On to the Rolo candy pretzels. Un-wrapping these little things is aggravating and tedious. Feeling adventurous, I try a few with Peppermint Kisses. 9:00- Take the pretzel candy out of the oven. The Rolo candies are good to go, the Peppermint Kisses are scrapped. While taking the still warm candies off the cookie sheet, one takes a flip and lands upside down on the kitchen floor… stuck nicely too. 9:15- Get on my house shoes; grab the 410 and shells to take care of the skunk. I’m wearing pajama shorts, socks and a t-shirt covered with an assortment of baking powders and fluids. It was quite chilly this morning! Proceeding with caution, I sneak up to the cage, and cover it with a tarp. Very carefully I tote the cage to the open. Setting the cage down, I catch the edge of the tarp underneath. Yikes! Now I have the gently pull off the tarp…thump! STRONG skunk smell surrounds me. Gagging, I carefully back away, shielding myself with the tarp, get to the gun. I have to sneak back up on the disgruntled critter… BOOM! The stink causes tears. Thankfully one shot got er’ done. 9:25 am: Back to the mess in the kitchen. I find the chocolate for drizzling seized. Forget the damned drizzle. I don’t even know if that little kid Mikey would eat these, so I am not going to waste more chocolate. I am exhausted. My house is a mess. The kitchen looks like it’s been bombed. I still have 2 more things to cook, and a dead and stinking skunk to be disposed. The buzzards are beginning to circle outside…. Merry Christmas guys
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 17:25:39 +0000
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