Skunk!?!

Last Wednesday night we were up late on the computer looking up the best tires for the Pilot. I decided to let Harley out again one more time...at about 12:15am. She ran out to do her business and then shot away like she was chasing after a rabbit. We have lots of rabbits in our neighborhood. I yelled for her to come back and she did. She walked right into the house and Nathan and I just about died. She had been sprayed by a skunk. She stunk! We hurried her back outside and I googled "how to get skunk smell out of a dog?" I located the ingredients to make the concoction that was given a five star rating. Hydrogen peroxide, baking soda, and dish soap. Nathan ran her upstairs and into the tub and proceeded to rub the mixture all over her smelly body. Nathan's eyes were watering, our noses were burning and all the time I am kicking myself for letting her outside. The next task was to eliminate the stinky skunk smell from my house. Once again google came in handy. Baking a tray of ground cinnamon was the suggestion...so I was up until 2:30am baking cinnamon. Unfortunately when I got Alexa up for school a couple of hours later she let me know that Harley still smelled. So I did the concoction once again. This time it worked. No more yucky smell. But our house still has that lovely aroma of skunk. I opened all the windows, lit every candle in our house and started baking cinnamon again. I left to run some errands and closed up the windows and blew out the candles and turned off the oven. When I got back it still smelled like skunk...UGHHH!!!! So I reopened all the windows, re lit all the candles and baked cinnamon rolls. By the time the kids got home from school...it smelled like cinnamon rolls. PHEW! I could still smell the odor faintly for the next few days. When Mackenzie and Dayton found out what had happened they wanted to know if I got a picture of the skunk because they had never seen a skunk up close before. Yep, that is the least of my worries. So lesson learned here, don't let Harley outside past 10pm and be on the lookout for skunks. This is one adventure I'd rather not repeat anytime soon.

Pedicures

I received a gift certificate to a salon/day spa here in Fishers for accompanying the 4th grade choir at Cumberland Road Elementary School. I have hard time spending money to pamper myself so getting a gift certificate to a "pampering place" although much appreciated was a whole new experience for me. A pedicure is something I have heard is a "must do" so I decided to ask the girls if they wanted to come too. Alexa, not interested. Mackenzie....counted down the days and hours. We had a great time. We relaxed and we got pampered. The best part was Mackenzie. She loved every minute of it. She loved the massage chair, the bubbles in the water, the smoothness of her legs and feet, the hot, steamy towels, the green and orange nail color, pretty much the entire experience. In the car on the way home she said, "I want to work in a place like that." Although I should have taken pictures I did not but it was a day we both will remember.

Wade Trim....Downtown Indy

Nathan's new office is downtown Indy. After having lived here for 3 years we finally made it to the downtown area to check some things out. I have a bit of anxiety driving into a large city and navigating where I need to go, so having Nathan working down there and knowing exactly what streets to take and where to park made this trip a lot less stressful for me. (I know, I'm weird.)

Nate works in a really cool part of downtown Indy. While we were there we decided to spend some time at the Soldiers and Sailors monument and the War Memorial, both are within walking distance of Nathan's office. I suspect we will be spending more time downtown...I'm sure there is much, much more to see.