Sorry for my bad....

Sorry it has been so long since I've written but it's been pretty hectic around here. On Monday night the dogs killed a skunk in our back yard but not before the skunk got even. Paul woke up around 4 a.m. saying that something smelled funny....like burning plastic. I could just barely smell it so I thought nothing but "go back to sleep". Paul got up before me, as usual, but came back into the bedroom insisting that I come out into the house and go back into the bedroom to smell this "burning plastic". I turned off the heater and told Paul to go check it out which he did and all he saw was water on the pan below the hot water heater. I called and made an appt with a plumber but then.....

Paul said "I think there's a body in the back yard". He was looking out the window that is over the sink and I have seen at least two "dead" stuffed animals out there so I poo pooed him off. HOWEVER, when I went to look....yep it was a black and white heap. At about this same time, Paul saw that Lulu had been sprayed on the chest because she had a very yellow substance on her. Being the IDIOT I can sometimes be, I bent over to take a whiff and thought I was absolutely gonna vomit and then certainly pass out. Paul went out to check on the black and white heap and sure enough it was a skunk. After taking one more moment to be an IDIOT I discovered that Misha had a little on her between her eyes and Marty probably was downwind from the spraying.

Paul and I both had a doctor's appointment at 10:30 a.m. The time was now 9:00 a.m. and already he was trying to weasel out of helping me with the dogs......"I've got meetings all day long....Jack is coming into town today and we're going over the budget...etc...etc...etc..... I asked him to at least look through the phone book to see if anyone would come to our house to clean the dogs, but he "was busy". His "busy" was taking papers out to his car, going to the bathroom, and moving his car. HE WAS TRYING HIS BEST TO GET AWAY!! Ladies, you know what I mean. He didn't want to have to deal. Bad Bad Bad Man.

He gave in after a few hours and we found out the recipe for de-skunking and I suggest you have this on hand if you have a dog. It works pretty good...they still kinda smell but not as bad.
1 qt hydrogen peroxide
1/4 c baking soda
1 tsp dish soap.
Cover dog with this..let it sit for 5 mins or so
Repeat
Rinse off.

Now, for Sammy the Bird, the Bird's the word, WORD UP!! He's in a squawking phase right now so he screams WORD UP in various low gutteral and high shrieking tones. But today he said Good Bird for us. And he mimics my laugh...ha ha ha ha....that's cute.