The random ramblings of a first time working mom ...

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Skunks!!!

UGH!! Picture this:

It's 10:30pm, my daughter is asleep and hubby and I are getting ready to go to bed as well. We do not have central air, so our house is cooled by 2 window air conditioners, one in the bedroom and one in the kitchen. They work quite well and keep the house comfortable most nights.

I'm in the kitchen getting a few things ready for the next morning, when I'm hit with smell. Not just any smell, but the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad smell of skunk!!! It smells like the little booger is right in my kitchen. I scream "Skunk!!" and frantically run through the house shutting off the air conditioner units. (If anyone has ever had window air, you know that they pull the air from the outside, complete with all the smells from outside).

Unfortunately, it was too late!! The entire house smells like skunk ... I go from room to room with the Lisol, but it only makes it smell like Lisol and skunk. Hubby gets the bright idea to open the kitchen door to see if he can tell where it was coming from. You guessed it - more smell gets into the house (and he never did find out where it was coming from).

The house finally aired out enough at about 11:30pm or so. We were able to get the air turned back on and get some sleep .. until the alarm went off at 5am.