Good Day
Dennis and I have really made use of this Indian summer day.
Dennis headed out to the garages. I saw that he hooked up the rake behind the rider mower. As Dennis mulched the leaves by mowing, the rake picked them up and added them to the canvas carrier. Dennis had chose a dump site for the mulched leaves on the far east edge of the acre.
I was determined to finish tipping in windows in my porch bedroom for the cleaning that was needed. I had half a bottle of Windex that I filled to the brim with white vinegar. The solution worked well to give a streak-free cleaning as possible. I will admit, I am not as fussy as in decades earlier. I had moved my bed over to the south and gave the woodwork on the north side of the porch some freshening up with Murphy’s woodwork wipes and then did a damp mop on the floor as well. Having done the south half of the room earlier in the week . . . I am calling the fall cleaning of this special room done.
At a time past, my bedroom porch was actually an open porch complete with the slanted floor for rain to run off of. Our living room has a huge 66″ window looking out to the now enclosed porch. The old glass with its wavy view is classic. The very top has an insert of a frosted glass landscape.
When Megan and Nicholas would stay with us as toddlers and they had been tucked in for the night in the bedroom porch, invariably they would get up and stand on the bed and peek back into the living room, leaving finger prints and nose prints. I never minded the peeking, but no pounding on the glass. Today as I cleaned that huge window, it brought back many memories of those cherished visits. I would have given anything to find one last such print.
When Dennis came in at noon and we had some Herring with cheese and crackers, he commented that with the window washing using vinegar and the lingering scent and now the Herring in wine vinegar, he thought we might just get a head rush. Nah!
Megan did call yesterday from college. She is going to make a gift for a friend. She needed some advise on thread and hand embroidery stitching. I steered her to a YouTube video. This morning, I got a text from Megan that she found the help she needed. YouTube has the answers on anything for everyone.
Dennis had made an oven chicken dish for last night’s supper. Dennis and I have had a very good day.