I woke up this morning, looked across the small yard at the neighbors’ house, and wondered out loud:
“Why did ____ and ______ have their front door open all night?”
Because I’d seen them prop it open just before sunset, you see, with one of those pet barriers stuck in the doorway. And they’d put a pile of luggage outside. This morning, however, the pet barrier was augmented with a big piece of plywood, although the door itself was still wide open — and it got down to around 20 degrees last night.
A bit later while shaving, I looked out our bathroom window and saw what looked like all the clothes the neighbors own hanging outside under the small ramada by their back door, like a giant outdoor closet. What the–?!? And then it hit me: the neighbors have a free-swinging “cat door” in back, and I think something else must have come in! Neither they nor we have actual closets, just a wall in a back room with a long pipe suspended from the ceiling to put hangers on. No door, in other words.
I’m afraid to ask, but it looks like the critter sprayed their whole wardrobe.
UPDATE: No, it wasn’t a skunk! They had an infestation of moths (the kind that eat your sweaters). The clothes are hanging outside so that the low temperatures kill the larvae. And the door was open all night because they first tried mothballs. This would be in a house that doesn’t have a separate closet that can be closed. Are you following me here? Yes, they put out mothballs in the same closed interior space where they were…
(Must. Bite. Tongue…)
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