Kind of Like the Time I Vacuumed the Yard

I decided to do a little dusting and cleaning today. Well, hopefully a lot of dusting and cleaning today, but we'll see how that goes. I got out my trusty swiffer duster and thought I could get one last dust out of it before I tossed the old duster sheet thing and put a fresh one on the duster sheet thing holder.

While dusting the ceiling fan blades, something that hardly ever gets done because how often do you look up while wandering around the house, I remembered that I had seen lots and lots of cobwebs on some of the outdoor wind chimes and yard decorations and hey, why not dust them off with the duster sheet thing before I tossed it in the trash?

You feel pretty silly outside dusting your yard things. But not as silly as the time that I vacuumed the yard.

When Jennifer was a little girl, 4 or 5, she had this huge stuffed bear or some other huge stuffed animal that was filled with those tiny little styrofoam pellets. One day she is out playing in the yard and I hear her shouting IT'S SNOWING! IT'S SNOWING!, so of course I look out to see what's going on because I'm pretty sure it's not SNOWING outside, and here she is pulling handfuls of these tiny little pellets out of the stuffed bear or whatever animal it was and gleefully tossing them in the air.

Well, the yard was pretty well covered in tiny white styrofoam pellets, and yes, it did look like SNOW!, but how to clean all this up?

Vacuum cleaner to the rescue, and let me tell you, vacuuming your yard does make you feel rather silly.

You Heard it Here First!

I'm going to actually DO SOME HOUSE CLEANING today. Maybe. If I get my fat butt up out of this chair and get started!

We're heading down to the coast this afternoon for a weekend o' fun. A family reunion/graduation/80th birthday/father's day/Keith's birthday extravaganza. Not really sure how much fun it will be, family reunions can get messy sometimes, but we're going. I thought it might be nice if we come home to a halfway clean house. Not that it's easy to get the house looking halfway clean-we STILL don't have kitchen or hallway floors, just glue stained concrete and remnants of linoleum, so even if you mop those floors, vacuum the carpet, and dust all the knick knacky stuff, it still feels dirty and messy. But, I'll do my best. Maybe. If I can just get my fat butt up off of this chair.

I have been meaning to get this cupboard cleaned up, too, those lunchboxes are from my studio, we had brought all the junk from in there out to the living room when Keith was putting the carpet tile in, and these have just somehow never found their way back to where they belong. Maybe I should just start packing Keith's lunches in them. Then all the other kids at work could make fun of him.
All of the rest of that stuff needs a good dusting, too. Okay, I'm going to go start cleaning now. In just a minute. Maybe.

Kitty pictures of the day-the girls are ready for their close-ups, Mr. Demille!
Little Miss MimiAnd Little Miss Lucy. These two are just the sweetest little girls!