After our weekend celebrations, it was back to the grind today. We woke early to sunshine and blue skies! The weekend had been full of cloudy skies and rain, so this was welcome, indeed.
After doing the usual early morning stuff, I went to the garden room to check my plants. Not sure if I mentioned but those eggplant plants that I was despairing about finally have started to sprout!
As always you can click to enlarge the pictures.
Then I set to work Spring Cleaning. Now I would not suggest this to anyone at all because once you start it just keeps growing. You see, I decided to clean the mud room so that it would be ready for when Hubby and I put the air conditioner in the window. I got that done, but then thought I would do the other two windows where we place air conditioners, and as I washed those windows I noticed dust on the curtains.
Now dust and I go way back. I hate it, but I also hate to dust, so I try to dust every so often. Today’s dust was really quite awful! I’m not sure when it crept in here, but I’m thinking it took up residence during our long cold winter to escape the snow. There was a ton of it and I decided to take down the curtains and wash them. It was then, with the bright and clean windows allowing even more light into the room, that I SAW IT!
Dust on my walls!!!
I got out my dust mop and sprayed it with cleaner and then wiped down the walls. I went from one room to the next wiping, until my arms began to ache. My big question in all of this is: “How the heck does dust stick to the walls?”
No, don’t tell me, I’m not even sure I want to know. What I’ve got to do now is finish wiping down my walls and wash all the curtains. This wasn’t something I planned, but as I stated above, when you start Spring Cleaning things just happen! Two air conditioners are in and one out of 5 rooms is almost done.
Once the Spring Cleaning is done inside then it’s time to scrape and paint outside. Yes, I’ll be climbing on ladders and painting the trim on our house this summer.
Does the fun ever end?
OCD – obsessive compulsive duster. 😉
Dust has to wait in our house…
Spring cleaning is the worst – because I’m like you. Start with sweeping and the next thing you know it’s 2am and you’ve painted the living room. LOL
This reminds me of my first mother in law, who was a really heavy smoker… Yezzz… imagine the walls full of yellow sticky nicotine… YUK.
You just reminded me that we should do some spring cleaning too. Ouch.
Well, it’s really satisfying when the job is done for sure!
I don’t do dusting. Did you know if you leave the dust for long enough, you can just roll it up in a ball and bin it? (Watches as DP scratches my house off the list of places to visit. Ever.)
Hahah dust gets everywhere… it’s insane!!