Get sprayed by a skunk, take a tomato juice bath, right? Wrong. As you can see in this video, it took a special recipe of hydrogen peroxide, Dawn, baking soda, and water to remove the skunk stink from my hapless cat. Enjoy.

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We visited my mom today, and enjoyed a lazy day just hanging around the house. Little Boy immediately went hunting for my dad, who showed up later to have lunch with us. He was immediately christened with peanut butter and jelly by Little Boy’s big bear hug of greeting. The kids discovered my great-grandma’s jewelry,…

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I showed Big Boy and Little Girl a little about using my camera this morning. Here are some photos they took, with a little photo editing by me. I’m really impressed! Big Boy loves angles. This one of Little Boy is going on the wall! Little Girl got this one of Big Boy. I played…

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The whole yard is contained! The dog loves the freedom of being off-tether, and I love the freedom to just send the kids out to play. Scott, with the help of a neighbor, hung the two gates Thursday evening. We had them custom made and they turned out WAY better than if we’d tried to…

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I lost my camera (actually, I think it was stolen, but who knows?), and took advantage of the opportunity to upgrade to a digital SLR camera with a manual lens. I’m delighted with the close-ups it takes. Here’s a good example, our first tomato. Little Girl with the pug we’ve been caring for this spring.…

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I learned something interesting quite by accident yesterday. We invited a family over for dinner who we had never met. They have three young children, just like ours. The same day I also needed to run our kids up to stay at the grandparents’ house for the weekend. That entailed some brief packing and then…

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