Housekeeping

Stuck in the house with all the heat, I've been doing a bit of housekeeping. The last window I had to clean was this one behind the couch. In order to get back there, I had to pull the couch forward.

I shouldn't have been surprised how dirty it was. Millie has been napping back there on really hot days, so I let the Roomba to do its thing.

I washed the window, and then washed the mini blind. I've now washed all but four of the mini blinds in the house. There are three I can't figure out how to take down without breaking something. I'll wait a bit, and try to get them when a friend of mine can tell me how to take them down properly. Once the blinds are clean, I hang them outside on the porch railing to dry, so I want to get them done before the weather gets too cool.

Windows

I've washed all but two windows in my house. I'll do the last two later today, when the sun has moved away from them. I not only washed the window above my kitchen sink, above, but I also took the mini blind down and washed it too. It's amazing how much brighter the view out the window is.

I did the same thing to the window in my bedroom over my bed. I can't figure out how to take some of the other mini blinds down. I know how to do some of them, but I don't want to break the others, so I will figure out a different way to do them. Every window in the house has mini blinds, and they aren't all the same.

Both these rooms face north so they were easy to do. We've had three days in a row of 89F+ temps, so I've got the AC going, and have prepared my menus for the week with recipes that require little or no cooking.

Red Globe

My pal Julie sent me this beautiful hand blown glass globe as a Christmas present. I have hung it in one of the windows of my sewing studio. It is quite gorgeous when the sun hits it.