“So, how are you really?”, asked my loving Mentor as we caught up on the phone. I was dusting as we talked.
“Honestly, the hardest thing for me to get used to is how quickly and how dirty the house gets”.
“Well, on your blog it seems so charming.”
“It is“, I answered, “and can you believe I just dusted the windows in the family room, where I dust all the time and wiped out a huge spider web with 5 dead flys in it!”
“Perhaps you should put a picture of that on your blog”, she said. Now, she is a wonderful, kind, wise and enriching friend…but I am pretty sure she is wrong here. No one wants to see a picture of that, however the odds of you seeing it, should you visit are actually fairly high.
As I texted My Loving Spouse the other day…
Even cleaning outside doesn’t last that long…so we have a simple system.
Washing the windows – spray them with the hose…
Washing the porches – spray them with the hose…
Washing the horses – hose..
Washing the cow – ha! Trick question… even we don’t wash the cow.
Washing the car – (almost never happens)…hose. I put The Teen to work. She was on it, with the hose today.
Washing the dog…hose.
The old cold storage room/dog room was really stinky. We’d pulled out the carpet, removed the rest of the ancient linoleum and tried to dust out the dirt the dogs had brought in…still dirty…still stinky. So…if it works so well outside…let’s bring it inside…somebody, please bring me a hose.
I wish I could hose down more rooms…it was so therapeutic!
When my aunt and uncle lived in Singapore many years ago they had a three story house and the floors were all cement and the bottom floor had a drain in it. My aunt said she would start at the top floor with the hose and wash all the floors down, down the stairs, down into the drain. Don’t know what kind of furniture they had, everything on stilts? Years later they built a big ranch house in Oregon, with cement floors with drains………
Once I saw a house with an industrial kitchen in it. It had cement floors and a drain in the center. All the appliances were on wheels so you could move everything around and hose it down. I think I would like an entire house like that… How about that for at least the bottom floor of the farm house?
Liz, I did ask Pat if we could put a drain in the dogs room! LOL
Being a city girl but wishing for a Montana cowboy, I bought a pressure washer @ Home Depot for about $100 and what fun I’ve had. Strangers walk by with their kids and dogs and I offer to “hose em off.” Seriously, I must not have had enough time making mud pies as a child because I am in heaven with my power washer……perhaps it is the name “power” that gives me such a thrill.
Sweet dreams everyone :))
Peggy O’Leary
Oh, yes, Peggy…that is a hose on steroids! We wore ours out cleaning the barn…need another one for sure. Come up so we can find you a nice Cowboy!