This morning I am engaged, in part, in spring cleaning. One of the things that has been on my list for some time and to which I almost got yesterday was the putting away of winter clothes. I was just about to start packing away the snow suits, boots and heavy coats when I chanced…
Category: cleaning
Ah, nudity (or, she has a future in law and I should be more precise in my demands)
I was dusting the living room (yes, okay, I know I should be outside enjoying the sun or working on the heaps of stuff I have yet to finish, but I’m in a rotten mood today and was cleaning house. Deal.) when a bolt of naked lightening transected my peripheral vision screaming, “Yipppeeeeeee……..!” There was…
Pruning
As a part of my spring cleaning this year, I’ve been editing the contents of my hard drives, the heaps of stuff in my studio, the mounds of excess children’s clothing, the almost embarrassing boxes of wine bottles, the t-shirts with more holes than cloth and my Flickr contacts. Over the past few months, I’ve…
Point of information
It takes about twenty (unpleasant) minutes of rinsing to get one entire 265mL bottle of kids’ shampoo out of the chin-length bob of a four-year-old. The resulting hair is clean, but possibly no cleaner than a half-teaspoon would have made it.
Cat swingin’
I feel triumphant. I turned this: Into this: …and this: There is now enough room for an army of toddlers to swing a bevy of cats. Or at least, for one happy kid to ride her bike and roller-skate (not simultaneously). Also for a husband to do kata. I also found some exciting things: Two…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 