A normal arrival after a band competition back to St Helens includes the unloading of the band trailer. It's not the fine welcome of from bus seat to car seat for our babies, but rather a haul out and cart uniforms and bass drums into the school. Instruments have to be ready to go for class on Monday, not locked up in somebody's band trailer backed into some long driveway :). So last night's early arrival was great! Kids were awake at 10:30 and hauling a few uniforms and shako boxes was good teamwork fun. It's what we arrived to last night at HOME that was a bit of a team-pulling argh. As always, Sadie was so excited to see us - jumping too and fro and wagging her tail so joyfully. However last night, she had this new white stripe growing on her back ....and the front yard, and garage was quite definitely odiforously attached to that long driveway.
Yes, at 11:00 it was time to draw straws to see who was going to give Sadie a bath and WHERE that bath might take place. Thank you Internet! The perfect recipe for skunk fume removal is a pint of Hydrogen peroxide, a box of baking soda, two squirts of dish soap and a gallon of warm water. It really was amazing. Ok...so it's not what we want to do after every competition, but together we went to bed with a wet dog at our feet, that settled in for the night wagging her tail with a new scent of Febreeze!
Yes, at 11:00 it was time to draw straws to see who was going to give Sadie a bath and WHERE that bath might take place. Thank you Internet! The perfect recipe for skunk fume removal is a pint of Hydrogen peroxide, a box of baking soda, two squirts of dish soap and a gallon of warm water. It really was amazing. Ok...so it's not what we want to do after every competition, but together we went to bed with a wet dog at our feet, that settled in for the night wagging her tail with a new scent of Febreeze!
