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Spring.
This time o’year we usually saddle up,
Head out on the range to wrangle in the strays.
They’ve been out all winter, getting fat
On dust, cobwebs, dryer lint, and such.
There’s no other life so free;
Wranglin’ lint doggies on the range,
Singing those ole lint-boy songs
‘Round the candle fire at night.
“Momma’s, don’t let your babies grow up to be lint-boys.
Don’t make 'em push dust mops, and push brooms, too much
Don’t let ‘em use Swiffer, Endust, and such.”
As I plod along,
I hear a young acorn lint,
A’tangle in a furniture thicket,
Bellowin' for her mother.
I gently free it, and it lights-out,
Bang-tail, hither and 'yond,
Like a cat with a tin can
Tied to its tail.
I rope her in,
And like Rowdy Yates, in a tender moment,
I gently lift her up,
Then drive her into the dust corral.
No other life so free,
Free as the breeze from the ceiling fan,
Free as the cockroaches and spiders,
Ridin’ the range, drivin’ them lint doggies.
What"s that?
The wife say’s I have to go
take out the trash…
"So, bang the rugs slowly,
And vacuum there lowly,
For I’m a lint herder,
And I know I must die…."
If I had a blog, I would write an entry about the importance of properly naming and organizing digital files. My problems started 4 years ago and went down hill from there. Someone once told me, to save a copy of a file anytime you make a design change to a file. So I have multiple files with just minor differences between each one.
So anyways once I bought a couple external harddrives, and I would pass files among multiple computers. I now have many files that have no differences at all!! Well a long story short, I'm finally spring cleaning my hard drives and it is a painfully long experience that could have been avoided.... On a side note, I always kept immacualate files and filing system at work but at home I would just let everything go, well not anymore.
View the photo large to really feel my pain :)
My vintage apartment has built in cabinets and drawers. I need to clean off the top of my refrigerator -- my coffee maker is gathering dust, my lucky golden cat bank from chinatown is full of coins which should be taken to the coin star machine. I've got some cute swedish candlesticks and a little milk glass on top of the fridge, which add some cheer to my kitchen, but also some old bottles of wine and rum, which I should probably get rid of.
It’s the time of year to give your home a fresh start, but housework doesn’t have to make you crazy. Julie Edelman, The Accidental Housewife, has some sanity saving tips to get through spring cleaning with a manicure intact!
June 4, 2020 - Me Restringing all four of my Violin Strings at Home tonight, and lubriating the Peg! Time for some Spring Cleaning and Spring Restringing!
My vintage apartment has built in cabinets and drawers. I have blue willow transferware hanging from platehangers in the back of the cabinet for decoration. My floor tile is blue and white and the main colors in my kitchen are navy and red. A shelf under the cabinet holds my l to r, my cutting boards, a blender, my grandma's cookie har, a bamboo container which holds reuseable chopsticks, vintage tins which hold my flour and sugar, little bowls which hold scallions and garlic, handy to the stove, some platters and pretty serving ware, a box of raisins, and some poorly placed vinyl placemats. I keep my pot lids hanging on a rack to the side of the oven, and potholders on a hook to the left hand side.
T is for tidy, Took some Time - Truckloads To Tackle...
my office at home was in desperate need of a tidy up... things were stacked up on every piece of available space...see, I'm a bit of a clean freak... but.. once it starts to go, I let it really go... it's a BAD HABIT (FGR), I do the same at work... there's a number of softdrink cans on my desk from the week... 2 or 3 Dr. Peppers, 3 or 4 Coca-Colas and 1 or 2 mountain dews.. for the record I'm coca cola loyal.. but pepsi does have a winner with mountain dew.. and dr pepper is nice for a change now and then... so, anyway, even though it's summer here, I really needed to give the office a SPRING CLEAN (TRP).
I had fun with passive aggressive comments the other day... and it's only fair that if I'm giving more out, that I'm getting some too...
I'm in the photo, hiding in the corner... a screenshot of a video www.flickr.com/photos/tharrin/3293081403/ that was done this morning for MIKE B's group "Hi, I'm..." - if you've been invited, please take part... it's so great to see a little of the people we feel we know from flickr and those we don't... yet. :)
I had surgery on my back (just minor) back in December and to avoid pulling the stitches out, it's been a couple of months since I put any serious elbow grease into cleaning my bathroom.
Well, this made my toilet very melancholy.
Warning: if you have a weak stomach don't blow this photo up any larger.
June 4, 2020 - Me Restringing all four of my Violin Strings at Home tonight, and turning the Violin Peg! Time for some Spring Cleaning and Spring Restringing!
The reason I later found out was that it was due to spring cleaning for that particular day at Telok Blangah Food Centre (Block 79) and Telok Blangah Market (Block 82)
My kitchen doesn't have any built in counterspace so I bought this IKEA counter as a workstation and storage for pots and pans. This is a view of my countertop. I keep some serving bowls out on the right as well as my sugar bowl, pepper mills, a recipe that I'm going to be cooking, and some tea in a little blue will transferware bowl. I swap the vintage fan out on the left for my rice cooker or foreman grill when needed, but it's a handy addition in the summer. I'd like to better organize the stuff that's hanging from hooks -- it doesn't look that attractive to me. The magnetic strip on the right is handy. It holds my knives and kitchen scissors. I clipped my grocery list to it with a binder clip, and sometimes clip recipes there too. A Todd Boontje serving tray from Target was a christmas gift. I use it when we have breakfast in bed!
Green Clean Day at the Ross School of Business on Friday May 19, 2013 on a beautiful day in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan.
The closet is a lot more spacious now that the luggage is no longer occupying its bottom. Also, the Ghostbusters flightsuit and labcoat are missing from the rack at the moment.
Spring cleaning woman screaming. She is stressed, wearing pink rubber gloves and looking at camera. White background.
Clearing up the cabinet in our lounge, including 30-year old VHS tapes; we no longer have a machine capable of playing them.
June 4, 2020 - Me Restringing all four of my Violin Strings at Home tonight, and removing the old Violin String! Time for some Spring Cleaning and Spring Restringing!
Green Clean Day at the Ross School of Business on Friday May 19, 2013 on a beautiful day in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan.
Got sidetracked & #cleaned the #cabinet under the #sink. #springcleaning room by room, the #kitchen is supposed to be the last room I do.
#organize #dishcloth #brushes #bottlebrush #jar #dishwasherdetergent #scoop #cleaningsupplies #soap #sponge #rubbergloves #refills #bucket #sinkcabinet #cleanandtidy #scrub #homemaker
Green Clean Day at the Ross School of Business on Friday May 19, 2013 on a beautiful day in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan.
June 4, 2020 - Me Restringing all four of my Violin Strings at Home tonight, and removing the old Violin String! Time for some Spring Cleaning and Spring Restringing!
Storage room behind sofa was cleared out and a trip was made to the local thrift shop.
The house is still in transition. Getting settled after the fire, rebuild, and improvements has taken almost two years. And think of how easy they make it look on reality tv! It's nothing like real life.
Some pictures of the fire and it's aftermath are here:
www.flickr.com/photos/k2yhe/sets/72157624264768294/
Updated photos of the house are here: