Guests
What better reason to clean things up than guests arriving in great numbers over the next few weeks? We've spraywashed the outside of the house, touched up some trim on the porch, repainted old peeling patio furniture and put new cushions on it, and cleaned up any number of horrors in the house. The spare bedroom becomes such a dump when there's no one planning to sleep in it. My husband had the bright idea of squeezing my hundreds of skeins of yarn into those vacuum packages that attach to the vacuum cleaner, because I'm on a tiny-tiny white thread crochet kick and probably won't need to get to my yarn for years. Boxes of this and that left the house for the local thrift store, ladders were climbed in aid of cleaning years' worth of dust off of the tops of windows, doors, light fixtures, and ceiling fans, and corners were de-grimed with toothbrushes. We're nearly presentable!
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Well, the veranda looks nice, to be sure. Do you have a view of a creek or some other water in the second photo?
I can so relate. My college roommate visited this summer - her first time ever staying with us. We cleaned the house like it hasn't been cleaned in years - in the middle of a terrible heat wave. The house looked wonderful, we had a great visit, and - best of all - after the visit my husband and I got to enjoy all that order and cleanliness ourselves. It almost - not quite but almost - makes me wonder why I'm not more diligent about stuff like washing window shades all the time. :+)
You're hired! When can you start?
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Looks lovely!
I miss having a deep rocking porch. The one on the current place is a whole 4' deep and serves as the main route to the front door, so having porch furniture is not an option. On the other paw, I recall the "joy" of sweeping drifts of pine pollen off the deep porch, and trying to clean it out of the cushions on the porch swing. :)
LittleRed1
Grim: In wet years a pond is visible from the porch on the other side of the house (the porch goes all the way around), but the pond is dry this year. The view you're seeing in both of these pictures is the live oak forest that surrounds the house on all sides. Our garage is downstairs, so the porch is ten feet up in the air, which helps with the mosquitos and perhaps makes the trees in the photo look as though they were down in a creekbed, but in fact it's almost completely flat all around here. We're at only 17 feet of elevation, on a very small, flat peninsula. We're a mile or two from the salt water in three directions. No creeks! If it's not dry, there's standing water until it can either soak in or very slowly drain off toward the shore in huge sheets.
I think the little trace of blue-gray you're seeing through the porch rail is the metal roof of one of the small well-houses.
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