Reflections of Domestic Gawds
With Halloween past almost a month now we're well into my personal holiday season.I notice many of the stores are in full Christmas decor as a marketing ploy and indeed, things progress steadily toward the yuletide despite the rigors of work and my other activities of daily living.
Today is Saturday. This is that day I have set aside for getting some of those house chores done which escape me during the work week.
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I spray the mattress, pillows, and bed frame with either a mild disinfectant spray or tea tree oil. Both permeate the house a good while afterward with tea tree oil lasting several days often times well into the next week.
I relocate a few pieces of furniture and some rugs from the kitchen and get the Roomba going in the kitchen and living room. The new battery runs the thing a good four hours and it does a pretty good job with adequate maintenance.
You have to blow it out and periodically wash the brushes and so forth and this gets done each Saturday.
Then I hit the kitchen counters and dust the living room, take my work duds to the cleaner in Dutch Square.
Sunday I'll have at the bedroom, the bathroom, and the back hall with the Roomba. I kick off the tidy whities in the washer then dry them upon my return from visiting Mama. The Roomba really does a good job under the bed frame with the dust bunnies and such. The furniture relocation is much more involved on Sundays because I want the Roomba to run unimpeded.
So with the advent of Sunday afternoon the bulk of the cleaning has been accomplished. It all is quite domestic but it makes me feel better to have reasonably tidy, cleaned, and orderly quarters.