People think I am joking when I say that spring cleaning – heck, any kind of housekeeping – involves opening the windows on all the four sides of the house and letting Nature take part with breathy wind. It works! And when the weather is warm and the windows and doors remain open, the breeze does a very thorough job. The dust that collects under the frig during the winter came scurrying out in a gray ball that I first thought was a mouse.
This year I did another simplifying (more about ‘stuff’ in a later post) and investigated the contents of boxes. In the seaman’s chest (a wonderfully rustic, handmade, wooden box with rope handles) which serves as storage for those special things from my ‘journey’, I found this crowd of characters. They were made by my youngest son nearly twenty years ago and were used in animation. I have taken them out periodically over the years and enjoyed and admired them and did so again. But this time I noticed some were ‘damaged’ and beyond repair. Regretfully I threw them out. That is what happens when you use batteries as armature! But some were just fine (golf balls don’t ‘leak’) and were carefully put back in their box in the seaman’s chest and will likely make another appearance when that son and his fiancee make a visit here next month.
Spring cleaning continues…..I wonder if anyone has come up with a solution one can spread on windows that allows the rain to clean them. If not…..why not!? And I am, again, not joking.