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    Worst smell ever...........

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    Having survived a career caring for human sickness and the like I feel somewhat qualified to discourse upon the subject of malodour. Perhaps it is just that this was the malodour du-jour but this peculiarly piquant episode merits discussion IMHO. I have 2 dogs, Ernie and Cisco. They're nice dogs. As with most animals they eat and they expel excrement and they are subject to their own varietal illnesses. No big deal there. As they are well behaved animals they do their bidding out of doors, good, bad or indifferent. And being the meticulous old-man, anal-retentive, gardener-sort I pick up after them 2 to 4 times daily, PRN. No big surprise there. For this necessary chore I employ a Disneyland-esque doody picker-upper and a lidded, air tight plastic can which itself is lined with a disposable plastic bag. I dispose of said -pooter- waste bag in the weekly trash pick up and replace it with a brandy new fresh plastic bag. All good stuff, neat and reasonably clean. In fact during the winter I can go for weeks at a time without any untoward side affects. Well spring/summer brings many joys and also its problems. It was a unique week for my house. For starts the boys were sickly. That means puked up piles of partially digested Science Diet (Lamb and Rice Kibbles) as well as the concomitant slurry-ish mucous laden stools, all deposited out-of-doors and expediently gathered-up by yours truly and dutifully disposed of. Well as a matter of convenience most any snippets of back yard trashy stuff also goes in that same receptacle. This week that included various foliage clippings and 1 dead pocket gopher and 1 dead robin. The dead animals were freshly dead whence initially deposited and I thought nothing about the circumstances. I do not get many dead animals and what else was I gonna do with them anyway? Of course as the week progressed so did the daily temperature, to a steady mid-80's. Said air-tight bucket was exposed to roughly 8 hours of intense sunlight. Needless to say as trash pick-up day approached things were getting a tad aromatically challenged. Two days before the scheduled trash day I innocently added a single huge slug to the gathering mire. Sadly I have to admit that it was not dead when so deposited. Killing it would have been icky and despite its massive size it was slow enough to capture. It was regretful in retrospect but it was not maliciously undertaken. BTW I live in the northwest and believe it or not the slug is Washington states official state bug (or whatever). I live in Idaho but it is close enough. This collection of dog puke, dog diarrhea, dead and alive animals and rotting foliage was awful and smelled ghastly, I mean putrid beyond description. Honestly I think it was the dog food puke. And then it happened. The 4th of July. Trash day got delayed by a single hot day. That was just enough time to allow a Russian sized horde of maggots to blossom into an explosion of exudative, off-gassing squirming sludge. As it so happened I made that one final doo-doo run before removing that bag. The dogs were better and I was just blissfully happy to see formed semisolid excrement. I was expecting a blast of badness as I unlatched that bucket. What I got - was - shall we say - palpably unfortunate and unforgettable. Knowing y'all care about my life and its finer points I thought this should be shared here because I also care about you, each and every one of you. Do not do what I done did. Ever. Though I expect that cable TeeVee's celebrity coroner Dr. 'G' has experienced worse odors it ain't by much. Gack!!

    A beautiful piece of writing. I felt as though I was right there in that air-tight pail.

    Montblanc Ink Pens

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    I have however, forgotten about it being in various shirts and it's been through the laundry a bunch of times. Wife usually intercepts that though and when I find it's missing, I go downstairs and it's usually stuck in the change cup (full of my change) next to the washer.

    I'd swear my wife adds things to my pockets when they go in the laundry, just so she can chide me.

    OT: Scary Halloween makeup! Caution: Graphic!

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    This is fini's daughter. Thanks for all of the compliments! I would be flattered if you posted it and I guess you can credit me, Paloma.

    The materials that I used were the following:

    -scar wax (used to make fake skin around the eye and cheek)

    -fake nail tips (filed down to make teeth)

    -red puff paint (to make the muscles)

    -rigid colodion to make the scar (you need to be careful with this because the fumes are very strong)

    -thread to make the stitches

    -fake eyelash adhesive to attach the threads and help the teeth adhere

    -vaseline and eyeshadow to mix a brownish red goop to put on the muscles to give definition.

    I took just about every idea from this video and added a few little twists, but if yuo watch this you should be able to figure it out.

    Let me (or, rather, dad) know if you have any questions and I will answer what I can!

    P.S. I'm thinking about doing something new this weekend, so if anything awesome comes of it I'll have dad post it.

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