Nearly every morning and in this order I get up, walk to the living room open the door so the dogs can get out, turn on the computer, get coffee started, get the dog food ready, go and relieve myself (I know TMI) feed the dogs, get a cup of coffee and sit at the computer to check out the weather, e-mail, and NEWS. I am not happy when this routine is interrupted especially when I have to work. 10 minutes with a nice hot cup of coffee and my equivalent to the news paper just makes my morning. Well today at 0610 that’s 6:10 in the am Trip the girl dog came into the house foaming at the mouth and with an odor that brought tears to my eyes. That damn dog got into another skunk; the second one this year. To make things worse I had to be at work for a mandatory class at 8:00 am and it takes an hour to get where the class was being held!!!!! Well I got the Dawn soap and the vinegar, threw Trip in the shower gave her a quick bath and rinse, I did not have the 10 minutes to wait with the Dawn on but since the skunk spray was still wet I figured something was better than nothing. Trip got out of the shower and on to the porch and I hopped in took a quick shower and off to class I went. Class was canceled because of a computer glitch but not before my coworkers got a scent of my new perfume. It seems there was just a hint of essence de la skunk on me. With the cost of gas I went ahead and got my errands done while I was out. I stopped at three places, the first place I stopped I heard a man say to a woman, “Do you smell that I think it is something electrical” her reply “NO that is SKUNK!”

I have spent all afternoon cleaning house and dog and I can still smell that skunk…… Damn that dog!!!!