The Fragrance...

What a busy week!  Beautiful Spring days have called us outdoors and we shed our winter coats with abandon.  Our moments have been filled with

Flower Gazing

Bird Watching

And of course, the requisite Spring Cleaning!  Up in the attic with Dad

Then down in the garage pondering what to do with all the boxes...

Giving up on the boxes to take a Spring Walk!

Planting some Knock-Out Roses.  Oh, they will be beautiful right here...

And then some more flower gazing...

Hello?!!

We interrupt your Spring Fantasies with a huge dose of reality...

Saturday Evening.  Front Porch.

Oh, yea, it was bad.  Real Bad...

Petie, our Papillon with attitude, surprised Pepe Le Pew on our evening walk.

Oh, so bad...

Mr. Pepe sprayed Petie, the porch, the house and all the bushes he ran past...

Really, Really BAD...

Petie had to endure the Bath of Shame

Then we set up the trap... And promptly caught the cat...

In hindsight, I am wondering just exactly what we thought we were going to do if we did happen to catch the skunk in our "oh-so-nice" live animal trap?!  Just thinking out loud...

On to Plan #2.  Trip to the Feed Store and $80.00 later we are armed for battle.

And again, the black cat.  Really?

The Fragrance of Spring isn't always all it's cracked up to be!

We have learned to our sorrow that Beauty has it's Peril...

Thankfully, a dear friend came to the rescue with an amazing Skunk-Off Recipe.  So simple, so effective.  We doused Petie with it, scrubbed down our porch and house siding, and even poured it over the  skunked bushes.  Odor has been neutralized times ten (except for the occasional whiff, and I think my nose is malfunctioning...)  So, here is my gift to you, the homemade Skunk-Off recipe.  No home should be without it!

Skunk-Off Recipe

1 quart 3% Hydrogen Peroxide

1/4 cup Baking Soda

1 tsp Liquid Soap

Mix together and saturate area that has been skunk sprayed.  Safe to use on animals, allow to soak through their fur for several minutes, then rinse thoroughly.  May need to reapply if scent is not completely neutralized.  Also helps to use as soon as possible after being skunked!

Petie has recovered.  And this morning we were off to explore the Garden Path.

May the fragrance surrounding you this day be totally skunk free!

My Love, Jane