Yesterday morning when I went out the back door to turn on the pool pump, I was greeted by a powerful fragrance in the air and the head of a small animal protruding from the open end of a drainpipe I installed to carry rainwater away from the back patio. I couldn't tell what type of animal it was but I could certainly tell it was dead. My best guess is that it crawled, for some reason, up the pipe and got lodged inside. Sad.
Now....how to get it out? I did not care to touch the critter, so I tried prodding, pushing and prying to no avail. Finally it occurred to me that the appropriate tool was near at hand. When I was building, the welder fabricated several tridents to hunt crabs on the beach and I had one that I used to spread barbecue coals. Funally, I was able to get some purchase on the corpse and with no little effort, coax it out of the pipe. As it exited, I was able to determine that it was a skunk! My nose should have disclosed that but skunk, mixed with the smell of death and tropical fragrances, made for an unusual smell and it failed me.
The critter has been removed but the smell lingers. That's just how it is in the rainforest.
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