Hero for the day

Although this post is about two days too late, I thought I would tell you the conclusion to my smelly situation we had the other day ... As you may know from either being close to me or reading my other blogs I am temporarily handicap so, my 2nd born was my hero for the day!! She was home sick and decided to help me rid the skunk off of our front porch. Everytime the dogs would bark the "stink bomb" as she called it would spray and the smell was just hanging in the house.

First we called my husband at work to find out how he would handle the situation. He said to get a bowl of water and pour it down the opening to drowned it out. (It was backed under an old, antique gas stove we have sitting on our porch, down by our stairwell.) So with a very large bowl full of hot water, my 13 year old walks out on the porch and dumps this hot water and runs to the front door. I guess we both thought that the animal would spray or jump up the stairs, cause we were both kinda nervous about her getting in the house in time.

We waited watching out the window and nothing happened ...

the phone rang - making us both jump (haha) - and it was my husband with another idea, apparently he had discussed the situation over his lunch break with the other men that he works with and they decided that we needed to add some bleach to the bowl of water so that the skunk would have to run out for fresh air, so with a very large bowl full of hot water and bleach mixture, my daughter walks out on the porch again, and dumps the contents of the bowl into the opening and runs to the front door.

We waited watching out the window and nothing happened ...

The dogs started barking again and the air thickened with the smell of the little black and white creature. So, we decided together to flood out the little fella, and to forget about the bowl of water - this was gonna have to be big - so she went out and hooked up the water hose. Now, I have to say as a mother, I wasn't happy about letting my child who was running a fever to get out in the cool air with a water hose, but neither of us wanted to (a) hear the dogs bark all day and (b) smell what their barking produced.

I videotaped the process of the water hose, its a six minute video ... but finally the skunk escaped the pressure of the hose and scurried across the porch to the other side, all the while my daughter was squirting him, so he scurried back looking for shelter ... (I am inside screaming, as if he was going to eat her up, its quite funny to listen to), and then finally our dogs decide to finally guard us and chase the skunk of the porch.

The smell lingered just a little longer and then disappeared...

And that is why R is my hero for the day!!!