An Afternoon in the Life of Tara

Happy New Year to you!  So, would you rather read an interesting story or see unedited pictures from the holidays?  Interesting story?  Yes, I thought so.

To walk a day (yesterday to be exact) in my shoes, you would:

3 p.m.

• Pick up Kenzie in the pouring rain.
• Take a curvy, hilly back road home. 
• See clods of mud all over road with muddy rainwater washing over.
• Run over clods of mud.
• Realize clods of mud are actually clods of skunk.
• Shrug shoulders, continue driving home, leave garage door open to air out smell.

3:30

• Get back into car.
• Be overwhelmed by lingering skunk scent.
• Drive on interstate in pouring rain to dance class.

4:45

• Get back into car.
• Be overwhelmed by lingering skunk scent.  Even on the inside of the car.
• Feel sad regret that you ran over skunk, even though it was in several pieces.

5:00

• Pull into garage, leave door open to air out.

8:00 THE NEXT MORNING!

• Walk into garage, still smell skunk.  Like a lot.

8:20

• Arrive at work, 9 miles away, still smell skunk.

And what did I learn?  Skunk does not wear off of car tires.  Even after miles and miles of driving.  Even in the pouring rain.  In the future, avoid clods of mud at all costs.  Because they could be skunks.  You just never know.

Yes, I still feel bad about it.