Skunk

[lauradi7dw]

I am unreasonably awake in the middle of the night. There are windows open in several rooms of the house, including having a fan blowing in near the bed. After being awake for quite a while, the room started to have a clear odor of skunk spray. Who is bothering a skunk at 4 AM? In my case, instead of the idiom being close the barn door after the horse got out, I am closing the bedroom window after the skunk smell got in.
Not as classic a turn of phrase, but probably equally ineffective as an action.

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[sovay]

Who is bothering a skunk at 4 AM?

I don't know, but we have had similar wafts of skunk around dawn—definite skunk, not weed-skunk—and we've been wondering if some early jogger is freaking out our local representative.

[lauradi7dw]

I wondered about a coyote, which has not been seen in my street, but has in Lexington. There was a deer crossing the street by the Hayden center on Tuesday, though.

It occurred to me much later to turn the fan around instead, to vent it out. I also cranked up the air filter.