WARNING TO THE FAINT OF SIGHT!!!
I don't know where to begin since the picture below tells all. I convinced my oldest son Benjamin to accompany me into the bowels of the house.(he is 6 years old and the $5 I promised him helped too) We got under the house and crawled about 30 or 40 feet under air ducts and spider webs until we arrived at the scene of the crime. I couldn't find the source of the stench very well because I had daubbed my nose with Vicks Vapor Rub. The Vicks was on my lips, under and in my nostrils. I was taking no chances of puking under there. Things became very tight between the joists and the ground and Benjamin told me his legs were shaking because they were scared. At this point he also told me that he had brought "wormy" his new pet. Which you can guess by the name was a worm he found today and had placed in a sippy cup. So the three of us were stuck and Benjamin asked if we could say a prayer to find the stinky and get out of there. Ben said a prayer and no joke, as soon as he finished I spotted a large clump of fur. Reaching out to grab it, it was nothing. I looked up at an air duct and saw it.....
At first I thought it was a baseball glove....WITH LIPS! UGGH. I reached up and tugged and pulled for about a minute and out came a huge oppossum! It had been trapped between a joist and an airduct. I swished it into a plastic bag and we got the heck out of there. I hadn't selled it though which was weird. We scrambled out feeling like champions and showed it to mommy. Her scientific mind got the better of her and she said "smell it and see if that was it." My curiosity got the better of me so I stuck my whole face in the bag and inhaled deeply just in case the Vicks was too strong. THAT WAS A MISTAKE. I vomited almost instantaneously and threw the carcass far away from me. Well, that's about it. DeLynne got a good laugh and Benjamin showed me how brave he was crawling under the house with his good ol' dad. That's what sons are for.
