The Daily Forest Report August 14, 2014 The Further Adventures of Munkie Dunky & Crew

by nielskunze on August 14, 2014

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(Until It Rains by Echolyn from their 3-CD set A Little Nonsense featuring their music from 1989 to 2000)

Have you ever been awoken by a smell? It was around midnight when the unmistakable smell of fresh skunk spray wafted mercilessly through the open window.

Uh-oh, who got sprayed?

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It was Lass; she got it full in the face! Fortunately, Lass was Uncle Farfenoodle’s responsibility. She got a midnight bath with tomato juice.

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If you look closely, you can still see some orange stains from the tomato juice around her neck. One very positive thing to note about incidents like these is how quickly dogs are able to get over it. By the next day, out in the forest, there was no feeling sorry for herself or even dwelling on the lingering stink. This too shall pass.

It was during this walk the next day that the man still without a yellow hat made the mistake of saying out loud “Nothing smells worse than skunk!”

That’s just the kind of thing that a monkey in a dog suit likes to challenge. Munkie Dunky quickly went about searching out the stinkiest stink she could find… and had a good roll in it! And that earned her an immediate bath in the swamp. “I stand corrected,” said the man from under the brim of a non-existent hat– not yellow or otherwise. Such a shame to nearly ruin a fine dog suit like that, he thought.

Lass and Toblerone had already developed a bit of a rivalry with Munkie Dunky, and when Munkie Dunky took to a new obsession with squirrels, they were right there by her side ready to spring into action.

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Those pesky squirrels though were experts at escaping into the upper reaches of trees… and Munkie Dunky couldn’t break character and blow her cover to reveal her true monkey nature, so they three usually stood at the bottom frustrated and panting… until…

Down at the river, they came across a young squirrel who was beyond the safety of tall trees, playing on the beach among the weathered branches of an old log. The three superheroes gave chase, and three of them coming from all sides was too much for the poor squirrel… and he ran right into the mouth of Toblerone!

The man wishing he had a yellow hat asked “What have you got there, Toblerone?” When she laid it at his feet, he said “Oh damn!” And then he was forced to perform a mercy-killing as the prone squirrel was still clinging to life. The hatless man didn’t like that at all!

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It must be stated unequivocally that Toblerone is very sweet even though she is not peppered with bits of chewy nougat as her name might suggest. She immediately felt badly about what she had done. As the man with the terribly exposed head buried the now-dead squirrel in a cairn of rocks, she snuck away and looked on guiltily. She was very very sorry.

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Squirrels and skunks are very different energies. Squirrel is the epitome of nervous energy while Skunk is calm and self-assured. Their combined message is one of preparedness for a new level of recognition about to burst onto the scene. The Forest has been holding its hot, dry breath for the whole of summer, and now we will be away from the blog until it rains. (We should be back by Monday or Tuesday.)

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