{"id":11491,"date":"2022-03-12T22:54:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T22:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=11491"},"modified":"2022-03-12T22:58:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T22:58:26","slug":"its-a-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=11491","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a Miracle!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So three days after calling the pest control man our skunk was caught.\u00a0 Notice how I called it our skunk.\u00a0 It was beginning to feel like a permanent, rather stinky member of the family for a while.\u00a0 You know that saying guests who stay longer than three days start to smell like fish?\u00a0 Well, this guy or gal did not smell like fish. I would have welcomed that.<\/p>\n<p>David came upstairs before he left for work to tell me not to go out on the front porch as the skunk was in the cage.\u00a0 I asked him to take some pictures if he could.\u00a0 So he did and did not get sprayed in the process.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1857-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11489\" src=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1857-1-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1857-1-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1857-1-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1857-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1857-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1857-1-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1860.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11483\" src=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1860-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1860-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1860-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1860-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1860-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1860-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1859.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11484\" src=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1859-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1859-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1859-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1859-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1859-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1859-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How can such a beautiful animal smell so badly?\u00a0 \u00a0Look at that fur.\u00a0 Women would love to have a coat made from fur like that.\u00a0 \u00a0Glad they don&#8217;t have, though.\u00a0 It looks much better on the skunk.\u00a0 \u00a0Poor little thing looked so sad, but a little angry which is why I did not go out to see it.<\/p>\n<p>So the skunk saga was ended, I hope, although there is a chance there may be more under there.\u00a0 The house doesn&#8217;t smell like skunk when you come in from outside and that&#8217;s a big plus.\u00a0 Did I tell you the pest control man&#8217;s name?\u00a0 \u00a0I didn&#8217;t?\u00a0 It was Mr. MIracle.\u00a0 How about?\u00a0 He performed a miracle for us because if David or I had tried to get rid of that skunk it was almost guaranteed one of us would have been sprayed.\u00a0 He came, threw a cover over the cage, picked it up and off he went.\u00a0 I called him later and asked him what he did with the skunk. He lives out in the country and he said he let it go.\u00a0 I wonder if skunks have a homing instinct like dogs? Will that skunk return?\u00a0 I hope not. He said to call him if we notice another one under there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And another miracle happened.\u00a0 Or at least I like to think of it as a miracle.\u00a0 After Christmas of 2020, I cut the leaves off an Amaryllis I had grown.\u00a0 It had been so beautiful.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t know if it would rebloom again, but I put it in an upstairs bedroom and watered it sparingly all year when I thought of it.\u00a0 \u00a0I actually had completely forgotten it for months and then just the other day I went into that bedroom for something and there it was.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1855.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11487\" src=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1855-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1855-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1855-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1855-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1855-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1855-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The amaryllis had grown tall and bloomed again and I almost missed it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1854.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11486\" src=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1854-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1854-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1854-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1854-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1854-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSCN1854-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was beautiful. So now I will trim the leaves again and mistreat it for another year and see if it will bloom again.\u00a0 Miracles.\u00a0 Believe in them or not, they happen.\u00a0 Bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So three days after calling the pest control man our skunk was caught.\u00a0 Notice how I called it our skunk.\u00a0 It was beginning to feel like a permanent, rather stinky member of the family for a while.\u00a0 You know that saying guests who stay longer than three days start to smell like fish?\u00a0 Well, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11494,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11491\/revisions\/11494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}