Needless to say, the water attracts a lot of different animals. We mostly see birds, but often see squirrels.
Lately we have been seeing some juvenile skunks in the middle of the day scrounging for food. As cute as baby or juvenile skunks are, we really don't want to get to know them intimately, if you know what I mean. But lately we have been able to avoid them.
The other day I saw a child's shoe box with some green leaves and a note. The note read, "For Chexers the cute baby skunk." I thought this was adorable. No doubt this was from the children in the house whose street butts up against the trail. I assumed that the green leaves from a tree were for "Chexers" to make himself/herself a comfy new bed. Or maybe the kids thought that skunks eat leaves (but I'm pretty sure that they eat ants, bugs, grubs, and worms).
I got the cute idea to embroidery a baby skunk and frame it, and also write a little note back to the kids, thanking them for the nice soft green leaves, and explaining that I, Chexers, used these leaves to make my self a new bed.
I'm hoping that the framed "Chexers" gets into the right hands. I left the show box with the frame and note off the trail, in the yard of the house where I think those kids live.
I will probably never know how this all turned out, but my hope is that the kids will find the frame with "Chexers" picture and hold on to a really cute memory about their friend "Chexers the Cute Baby Skunk".
