No matter how much you try to get done in advance, when you have animals, you usually have to do something over. Sunday, I bathed Matilda. She was smelling like a dog…heaven forbid. But today, the day that we are leaving, she not only decides to roll in something nasty, she brings home a friend.

When Donna discovered them, they were napping in front of the couch. Matilda was put outside where she will get ANOTHER bath. Her friend was introduced to the Tidy Bowl Man as Anchors Away was being sung in the background.

As it turned out, Matilda must have done a quick stop, drop and roll. She wasn’t nearly as nasty as I originally suspected, so I spot bathed her. I think we were both happy about that.