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Dear Redneck Neighbor

Yes you. The same one that “rakes” your yard by blowing the leaves into mine, and also dumps your food scraps over the property line into my back 40,

I had my children out today cleaning up the area behind my fence. I own that area, having paid for it with the property, just as you own the area behind your immediate back yard. I know you understand this concept, since you have plowed up for a lovely garden back there. Unfortunately for me, that garden of yours extends fully 6 feet into my yard. I hope you don’t mind if I harvest that produce.

Furthermore, while we were out there, we picked up numerous tin cans that escaped your burn pile which also happens to be in my yard. We found 2 empty fertilizer bags as well, which I must assume you used on your garden, the one in my yard. We also found the springs from a burned mattress set. I can only assume it is yours since so much of the other stuff belongs to you.

This family of 10 makes plenty of garbage without your help. As a rule, we get it into garbage cans and certainly never throw it in someone else’s yard. I’d appreciate it if you’d bother yourself to think about the extra work you are making for me when you transfer your trash from your property to mine. You might also consider the example you are setting for my children, unless that’s too big a concept for your redneck mind to grasp.

Sincerely,
Your hacked off neighbor

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Housekeeping Channel

I saw this website tonight, and it took me about 30 seconds to realize I had to tell you about it! It’s the The Housekeeping Channel, and in those 30 seconds, I found three articles linked off the front page that I wanted to read.

The first one, Motivating Kids to Work discusses pairing kid fundage with proper performance of reasonable chores, while encouraging positive reinforcement for a job well done. The next article I checked out was on Getting Organized. This is surely a sore point with me, and I was reminded that the first thing I need to do is decide to do it. The last article I read was the 8 Myths of Vacumming. And I learned quite a bit about how vacuums really function. And yes, I have fallen for myth number 1 for most of my vacuuming life.

Ok, I did have to read one more article, and it was on Time. I was greatly disappointed to discover that the answer to “how much time should I spend cleaning?” is “as much as it takes to get the job done to your standards.” This last was part of the HC-pedia, and there are clickable words in the articles on the site that lead to the HC-pedia entries. You can also find it off the menu on the left sidebar.

I think I could go on for quite sometime about this site, but the longer I hold you here, the less time you will have over there. So, goo, and I’ll meet you at the Laundry Articles.

Appetite Suppressant

Last night, we had leftovers, accompanied by the ritual cleaning of the refrigerator. You know what you should never forget in the back of your frig? Broccoli. Because, the smell, it works better than hoodia for suppressing the appetite. I dumped the offensive mess, closed the container back up, and dh took out the garbage, and the kitchen still stank. And when I opened the container again to put it in the dishwasher, we got a fresh wave. Blech!

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Where am I at?

The highboy is done, and all the clothes fit, at least until I get the laundry caught up. There were no shoes in all that stuff, either. I guess they are under the couch, or lost in the boys room. I’ll find them eventually, I suppose. I’ll have to be calling a sea doo dealer to deal with the boys room so I can power over the waves of toys, so I am putting it off until a Saturday, I think.

It’s almost time for “work”, so I need to wrap my household things up in the next few minutes. Off to unload and reload the dishwasher, and see what’s for supper.

This entry was posted on February 20, 2007, in cass cleans.

Picking me up

Man, am I beat. I had a pretty productive day and I still want to play a game with the children before we start the bedtime stuff, so I am having a cup of coffee. I think now and again about joining the Coffee of the Month Club, just because there is never a time of day I am not ready for coffee. I seriously can drink it all day, and I am so spoiled that my DH even brings me my first cup of the day in bed.

This entry was posted on February 19, 2007, in cass cleans.

YUCK

DD#1 was scrubbing the bathroom for me tonight. I’ve got lots of bath stuff in there from gift baskets ideas, and I had put one on the corner of the tub filled with luxurious bath-y stuff that I always intend to use. I never get to use it, because that’s just not something I usually have time for, but nonetheless, I put it there to remind myself that it would be really nice to take a bubble bath. Well, somehow water got splashed up in the corner (it’s a large corner), probably when I was letting little people use my fabulous and decadent bath tub. My basket is now moldy. Sigh. I am not a happy mama.

Busy again today!

Don’t get used to these before and after shots. Here is what the desk looked like when I started today, and then after I was done. The little box-thing in the corner is stuff I need to deal with: dates for the calendar, etc. There were camera cards I needed to empty, too, but I did that just now 🙂 I’ll hopefully finish that bin during tomorrow’s cleaning slot. Then I should have all the household papers under control (except doing the checkbook, which maybe should also happen tomorrow).

This entry was posted on February 5, 2007, in cass cleans.

WOW!

Here are before and after pics of what I got done today. That pile on the bottom of the after pic is a dishpan full of stuff I need to sort, but I ran out of steam (read that as got so hungry I had to stop for a bit and wait for lunch). I may get to it today, or I may not. We’ll see. But for now, TA-DA!