At 3am the skunk reappeared and left its stink under our bedroom window. Luckily, I smelt it rather quickly and jumped out of bed, shut the windows, put the fan on and sprayed Febreze into it. I also used the lavender cream under the nose trick. It worked and we soon got back to sleep thank goodness. I hope this isn't going to be a regular thing!
It rained all through the night and for most of the day. We played a full game of the new Catan Seafarers (I won!). There was piano playing, Chess and Draughts playing, bird house painting and frog planters painting (the bottom so they can sit in the garden and not be ruined).
We did a bit of cleaning and sorting and after dinner went out to take Smallest to his football practice. Huffle had emailed the coach earlier in the day to check it was still on as we had had a lot of rain this weekend. He did get a reply saying they were checking the fields and would let us know shortly. As it got closer, we then emailed another coach whose child does the same football as Smallest and asked him if it was still on. By the time we left we had no replies from either of them. When we got there, the fields were locked and were empty. As we were early we drove around and then parked up outside. No-one turned up and no-one emailed. This is the second time now and Huffle is furious. Poor Smallest is just disappointed as he wants to play. They have asked for more money from us but until they start letting us know what is happening each week, they will be getting nothing! DISAPPOINTING!
We came home and decided to go for a walk in the Hamlet. It rained lightly but it wasn't too bad. On the way we passed a dog (whose owner we knew) and he came out to greet us, walk with us and then wandered home. On the way back he found us again but this time he had a friend. The two dogs ran around us, jumped up us (in a friendly wet dog kind of way) and went in our general direction. A woman asked us to call our dogs back as they were sniffing her dog and we had to tell her twice that they weren't ours! She didn't believe us as she watched us walk until out of sight (though the dogs came with us so I can understand why she was suspicious).
When we were nearly home, we checked one of the dogs' collar, rang the number and left a message saying it was loose and where we were. I then rang the owner of the one we knew and left a message saying his dog and another were heading on up our road together. Then I got a message from 'Roy's owner saying someone was looking after his dog and he would contact them. I also got a call from the one we knew who said he was on his way to get both. We herded the dogs back towards their home and they were picked up. Good deed done for the day. Smallest wanted to know why we couldn't keep them and Huffle most certainly now does not want a dog under any circumstance.
Despite the fact that we spent considerable time and effort in keeping an eye on the dogs, phoning their owners and texting to keep them up to date with what was happening, the owner of the dog we didn't know did not contact me to thank us!!!! DISAPPOINTING!
Back home and dry, the boys watched TV before bed.
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