Our house got skunked on Sunday night. At 3am, I woke up from a sound sleep by the awful smell of skunk spray. When we woke up again at our usual times, the whole house was permeated with it. Best we can tell, a skunk sprayed outside the house and the smell drifted into the house. Of course, no windows were open, so the smell must have come in through air intakes, the dryer vent, or somewhere else. However it got in, it did, and it is AWFUL. The entire house reeks.
Since it was a work day, we got ready and went about our normal routine, figuring we would go home over lunch to take care of it. Well, soon after i got into work, I realized that I smelled a bit skunky. Not my clothes, or my skin, or my hair... it was more an aura of skunk that followed me around. A bit of Oust and Febreeze temporarily took care of that.
Soon after, we got a call from Cameron's daycare telling us that he was the Stinky Kid. What an awful call, no parent wants to hear that everyone thinks their kid smells! They did put it much nicer than that, and did say that it wasn't actually Cameron that smelled, but his sheets/blanket for nap time. The changed him, double bagged everything that came from home, and he was just fine. A funny story for everyone at work, and everyone at the daycare, I'm sure.
We went home at lunch and cracked all the windows to get air in the house (yesterday was a super warm high of 20), and sprayed Febreeze on all fabrics, and Oust in all of the rooms. We called the sheriff's office, who will be bringing over traps today to try and catch the skunk so this can't happen again. Last night, Tim went over to close the windows so it wouldn't get too cold for a pipe to burst, and did another round of spraying the rooms. We spent last night at Mom and Dad's house so that we wouldn't have to sleep with the cold and the smell.
This is certainly not something I would wish on anyone - it is so awful! From what I read online, it is going to take a month for the smell to truly go away, and I will need to wash pretty much every scrap of fabric and every surface in my house. I can think of so many better ways to spend my free time - UGH!!
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I'm sorry for all the trouble the skunks have caused but I am enjoying your company. Rosemary is visiting her parents in Florida so I was going to be a bachelor - instead I am partying with Cameron each night - which is great! This morning as I was downstairs getting ready to leave for work I heard him at the top of the stairs calling out "Papa, Papa". I ended up staying and playing with him for awhile - what a great way to start the day!
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