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IL: Are you sure they are really cats and not imposters?
Hmmmm, perhaps. I had not considered that a possibility. I guess when they die, we can do an autopsy to see what’s really behind their furry flesh.Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
LOL. Very funny cat conversation. I would LOVE if my (now 1) cat didn't like boxes. As it is, there are currently three cardboard boxes around my living room floor. LOL
Yes! You have an authentic catus.Quote:
Originally Posted by happystuff
There is a feral cat colony a couple of blocks away from me. Someone has built them a little wooden shack cat house to shelter them. I think the same people feed the cat colony. The girl cats always look fat. There is one skinny cream colored cat who may be old. Several times I have seen him peeking out of the cat house when I drive by, in nice weather. I have wondered if he is near death since he is laying inside on nice days.
Then, 10 days ago I saw a bit of cream colored fluff in the road. On no! Did he get attacked by a fox and this was evidence of that fight? What happened to him? I assumed he was gone. Didnt see him for a while.
But yesterday! I saw him. He was hanging out with his cat gal pals and a red cat who is probably male.so, he is safe for a while. He was laying down in the grass while the others were sitting, so I still wonder if he is old and weak, but he is surviving.
This week has been very stressful and horrid at work, but today is calmer. I was given permission from the salesidiot to tell a douche bag new customer that we would not be able to do his first customs clearance or anything else for him. It felt soooo good. Guy gives wrong paper, doesn’t tell us it had shippers, blah blah blah. Very bad communication. He was throwing a fit this morning that shipment hadn’t been cleared yet. He created the delays and problems. So glad I don’t have to waste any more time on him.
Not only is it Friday but it's "end of the month" Friday which means it's time to deep clean the house and take down some of the September's seasonal decor and put up my Halloween decor. Since I don't have a ton of Halloween decor, I keep most of my Fall decor up and just add little touches of Halloween decor to it.
I like this idea of deep cleaning the house one day a month--maybe I should try that.
Used to do it every other weekend but there was literally no dirt to clean up. Obviously I do light cleaning daily and more in depth (scrubbing bathrooms/dusting/vacuuming/etc) every weekend. But there is something to doing a deep clean more than just once or twice a year that feels so good. I can't imagine how bad the baseboards, fan blades, tiled floors, cobwebs, etc would be if I only Spring Cleaned once a year or once in the Spring and once in the Fall like some do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
Yes, it sounds effective and I would know it was being done if I scheduled it regularly. I like that.
Me, too! That was one of the things I used to like about Flylady--her routines just made cleaning more mindless.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
I could handle a monthly deep clean. I think I'm going to try it, too.
do you mean, you clean baseboards of the entire house once a month? Argh!!, Nooooooo.Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
If you don't, you get what I looked at yesterday--I was horrified to see all this dirt and I thought I had cleaned it recently but obviously not. This is the stuff that has happened since I had abdominal surgery last fall--everything is just dirty because I haven't been scrubbing anything. Ugh.
My excuse…. I don’t even have baseboards in half of our house. They are being installed on the daily.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
But this discussion is hitting home because I have been seeing the little corners of dirt in the rooms that ARE finished. We’ve lived here for a year now. Things are no longer shiny and new. There’s a year of grime on some things.
And all the doors!! Can't forget about the doors. Dust settles into all the crevasses. I literally clean my house top to bottom each month. From ceiling fans and cobwebs to baseboards and floors. End the day dripping in sweat and tired as heck but man, the feeling of going to bed knowing that everything in my house is spotless is the best!! And that I don't have to do it again for another month! :laff:Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
OK you Queens of Clean, tell me—do you have a special tool to wipe down baseboards? Or (don’t tell me tjis! Haha) you actually have to bend over the baseboards in your entire house!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Klunick
My deep-clean issue is that my DH is married to using the stove top to cook everything: sear meat, sautée everything... and we have no range hood. I cringe when I think about our beautiful pine finished-but-unpainted ceilings and the grease they harbor. Never mind all the dishes on my open shelving!! Dishes that I don't use for a week or so need to be washed before use.
I do the dreaded "bend and wipe" method but there is a product out there called Baseboard Buddy that involves no bending.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
I guess this is a Rave, although it could turn into a rant!
Today I went by a fellow iris Society member’s house to pick up boxes of Iris she had purchased, but will not be able to get into the ground. She’s having family problems and she just wants the iris to go to somebody who will get them in the ground
This is… So many iris, easily $1000 worth of iris, it might be as much as $3,000 worth. It’s hard to tell because Iris growers put several “bonus free “Iris in with ones you order. They are all labeled and she even made garden markers for about 30% of them.
I am madly sorting and soaking them, looking up photos of each, deciding what to keep, and emailing people who I think might take them. I am keeping most of the 2023 new introductions, and many 2022 introductions, but still, there are dozens and dozens left.
New introductions go for $55-$65, depending on the hybridizer. I have at least a dozen.
Didn't get started on deep cleaning until about 9:30pm so only got my boys' bathroom and the hallway leading to it done tonight. Took about an hour. Also wiped down both boys' doors as well as the linen closet door. Called it quits for the night and will pick back up with my bathroom and bedroom first thing tomorrow. Entry, kitchen, and living room on Sunday. Then the fun begins and I can pull out my Halloween decorations and put them out in the kitchen, living room, and outside.
House has been deep cleaned and Halloween decorations are up. Dinner has been cooking in the crockpot since 10am so it's officially time to sit and relax for what little time I have left of the weekend.
Enjoy your accomplishments and your decorated clean house, Klunick!
Not sure what I did differently than any other time I deep cleaned the house but I woke up Sunday morning and my legs felt like I had gone to the gym and did 6 hours of just leg exercises. Good thing I did 99% of the cleaning on Saturday so my legs hurting didn't really affect getting the rest of the house done on Sunday. Legs were still hurting yesterday but luckily today, everything is back to normal.Quote:
Originally Posted by nswef
Started Sept 14 to fix/repair and completely screen in porch.... it is done as of today... Oct 4!!! They also put in new carports and did some inside work. Really pleased on how it turned out! Ordered a nice bench for the front (should be here Saturday) and bought some furniture for inside the porch. May get better furniture next year but will be adequate for now. Everything is so picked over. We will paint the metal legs on a table and I bought a really nice tablecloth for the top and pillows for the chairs. Worth every penny!
The new porch must be so nice. And there’s still some good weather left to enjoy it.
it is great you got that work done do quickly. The decor will be pretty.Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
I am for the first time considering pillows for our outdoor chairs. And a rug. The table and chairs sit on a deck which is so very blah.
I’m in Texas so the weather will better in winter. We put in a ceiling fan so now early mornings and evenings are comfortable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tradd
Congrats, frugal-one. Sounds lovely!
Maybe this is a rave? A premature rave?
I have decided to hire a landscaper. That seems anathema to us plant people. But honestly, I’ve been struggling with this Hermann front garden for years now, and the “random pretty plants placed wherever” method of my cottage garden in the city is not working here.
For one thing, half of the plants I used in the city can’t be here because of deer, they eat the plants.
my little town of Hermann has several professional plantings that I keep a close eye on. I’m going to hire the landscaper who did one of them and ask him to use many of the same plants. That includes roses, which I HATE to take care of, but these are polyantha roses that require little care.
A good landscaper/landscape designer can be a great thing. The one time I used it was when we had large shrubs under our front windows removed--they were out of control and not too pretty. I didn't know what to replace them with, so I brought a sketch, including the footprint of the house and garden, and the dimensions of the area I wished to replant.
I took it to a local family-owned garden center and asked if he could help me with decisions on what to plant where. He told me to walk around and pick out a few plants I liked. I did that, handed him my list, and right there, at the counter, he sketched out a plan for me. I purchased the plants and hired his guys to come and plant, but there was no charge for the design.
It was totally worth it. I think asking a local landscaper to help will ensure that they will be able to suggest deer-resistant and other regional factors to be mindful of.
Thanks for the kind words everyone!
We had a great day at the fair. Saw the draft horse show, our favorite, and then we got to watch the harness racing. Have not been to a harnes race since the age of 12, so that was great fun. All I remembered was that there were pacers and trotters. Just wish I had figured out how to read the program and bet--we didn't even know there was betting, we were such fair rubes. By the time we got settled with apple crisp, husband had lost interest after the first 4 races. I didn't even get to see any trotting races.
Personally, if it hadn't cost 30 dollars to get in, I would have gone back the next day.
$30 to get in! Wow! Ours is free to seniors on some days, otherwise $10.
We have senior days at the State Fair but darn the parking is still $10 on top of any tickets.
We paid 5 to park and 15 per person.
Working from home for the first full day since the WFH job ended in March 2021. I’ve done a few quick things at home on the weekends, but this is first big chunk. Car gets towed to mechanic today so I had to stay home. A lovely coworker has been driving me to work so she’s saved me the cost of a rental.
I’m working via Remote Desktop. The only awkward thing is that I’m used to having our transportation software on one monitor and email on the other. I have two monitors at home (three with laptop screen), but I can’t move anything over from the monitor the Remote Desktop is on. Oh well, I’ll just work slower. I was going to take the day off but manager suggested I could just work from home.
My almost 92 year Mom decided to give up driving (thank god) so I flew one way to Detroit, spent five days visiting family and friends in Ann Arbor, and have been driving her 2018 Volkswagon Jetta with only 19,000 miles back to New Mexico since Monday. I really had no agenda and I don't have to be back until Friday, so I have been taking my time and taking in the sights. Ann Arbor to Iowa City the first night (I lived there from 1990-92), then meandered through Iowa and ended up in the middle of Nebraska in a "cheap yukky motel." Tonight I'm in Cheyanne Wells, CO, a funky little town out on the eastern plains. Tomorrow I'm going to head for Trinidad, CO and spend a little time walking around, then I'll head for home. Now that I'm older traveling is fun, but I actually do want to get back to the comforts of my own home. It's interesting to me how much I have changed over the years - all my out west travels of yesteryear were my escape from the drudgery of my life in Ann Arbor. Now that I actually live out west permanently, it's a totally different feeling.
The Jetta is AMAZING! The nicest car I have ever owned!
Congrats on the new wheels--that sounds delightful, and glad you are able to make the trip before the snow flies. Good job!
Sounds like you had a good time visiting with family. Yay! to the new-to-you car! Have a continued fun and safe trip home.
The road trip sounds amazing! And congratulations on the car! So exciting!
Our family is big on meanders, so yours sounds awesome! Nothing better than just going where you will... and finding unexpected joys along the way. My DD and I took a road trip from Houston to NJ once when she told me she was driving to Houston to drop off her friend. Coincidentally, I had a market research project that brought me to Houston at the same time, and I, in no way, was comfortable with her driving back to the East coast alone, so I cancelled my flight back to Newark, met up with her in Houston, and we went on our way, staying in Texarkana, visiting Hope, AK, then going to Memphis, Knoxville, Tazewell, VA, Washington DC, and finally, home. It was a really memorable meander!
But, as you said, there's no place like home.