Wednesday, October 5, 2016

We arrived home last night just at supper time – it was a long drive all the way up from Portland but we (meaning Pat) timed it so we missed most of the rush hour traffic. Most of the major cities had HOV lanes which we took advantage of.

I unpacked my suitcase last night but my “goodies” are still packed away. I’ll dig them out tomorrow and show them to you.

While we were away the Cran Hall board were busy and we have a new tenant coming into our rental house. There was some concern from one of the Board members that the house wasn’t nearly clean enough for the new people to move into, particularly since the rent had gone up. I suggested we do a cleaning bee and only Dee took me up on the offer but she didn’t have any time until Saturday.

I went to the house this morning and got a start on things. There is a lot of mildew around the windows and that is mainly what Dee was concerned about. I scrubbed down four of the six windows – they aren’t perfect but they are better. Apparently there is some sort of an oil we can spray on that will keep the mildew from returning too quickly.

I noticed a lot of other maintenance things that could be done easily so I’ll continue working for the next couple of days. I think I’ll go to the Economy Shop and get some new curtains for all the windows. Some of them have venetians and they are just too disgusting to even clean.

I didn’t realize there was a full basement under the house. There is a lot of junk under there that has been left from previous tenants. There is also stuff down there that I think we could sell for a few bucks. There are boxes I never even looked into so maybe there are treasures in with the junk!

Hopefully there will be more help on Saturday as a bee really isn’t a bee if you are working alone.