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Fun with housework
Aug. 19th, 2009 11:46 amThe Sonic Scrubber is a nifty $13 electric toothbrush for your shower/sink/etc. It is a spin brush, and is only "sonic" in the sense that it makes noise. It is not the sort of noise that blasts dirt off of your grout or opens every lock in the galaxy, but it's a nifty thing that conserves elbow grease, so I like it.
Bar Keeper's Friend is a nice old-fashioned toxic scouring powder, very good for old white sinks that have lost their enamel, and stubborn shower grout and so forth. My sink, toilet, and shower are all very white now , and my oxalic-acid-induced headache has abated after an evening's fresh air and some sleep. Possible TMI: ( bathrooms are icky )
Also done: sawing down the giant overgrown juniper from next to the stoop, and all-but-sawing-down the giant overgrown burning bush from the other side of the stoop. (Both can be seen menacing me and Charlie over in the left-hand-side of this photo). The burning bush has the option of growing into something nice in the spring after the hard pruning I gave it (over 70% probably), or it can sulk, and get completely cut down in the spring, as it so chooses. For now I can say HOORAY! I can sit on the stoop and actually see things. And I didn't get bitten or stung by anything in the process, despite both bushes being a popular hangout for various insects. (Part of why they had to come down...attracting a bad element) I did see one spider that was brown with a white mark on its back, which behaved in a reclusive manner by scurrying under some leaves on the ground, but it does not appear to have been a brown recluse. There is now an enormous heap of branches lined up along the curb in the hopes that the village will take them all away without us having to call a tree service...it looks a bit like I'm building an evergreen fort.
Next: putting the library in order, and moving all of the storage and crap out of the guest room. Also, about a thousand loads of laundry. I'm glad, actually, that we have a lot of work to do to prepare for guests; otherwise we might fret about the visit. Which I'm sure will go fine, but I'm a fretter.
Bar Keeper's Friend is a nice old-fashioned toxic scouring powder, very good for old white sinks that have lost their enamel, and stubborn shower grout and so forth. My sink, toilet, and shower are all very white now , and my oxalic-acid-induced headache has abated after an evening's fresh air and some sleep. Possible TMI: ( bathrooms are icky )
Also done: sawing down the giant overgrown juniper from next to the stoop, and all-but-sawing-down the giant overgrown burning bush from the other side of the stoop. (Both can be seen menacing me and Charlie over in the left-hand-side of this photo). The burning bush has the option of growing into something nice in the spring after the hard pruning I gave it (over 70% probably), or it can sulk, and get completely cut down in the spring, as it so chooses. For now I can say HOORAY! I can sit on the stoop and actually see things. And I didn't get bitten or stung by anything in the process, despite both bushes being a popular hangout for various insects. (Part of why they had to come down...attracting a bad element) I did see one spider that was brown with a white mark on its back, which behaved in a reclusive manner by scurrying under some leaves on the ground, but it does not appear to have been a brown recluse. There is now an enormous heap of branches lined up along the curb in the hopes that the village will take them all away without us having to call a tree service...it looks a bit like I'm building an evergreen fort.
Next: putting the library in order, and moving all of the storage and crap out of the guest room. Also, about a thousand loads of laundry. I'm glad, actually, that we have a lot of work to do to prepare for guests; otherwise we might fret about the visit. Which I'm sure will go fine, but I'm a fretter.
