fall already. i feel like there are about a million things i want to accomplish today but i focused on getting a new banner up there that says fall instead of summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
i’d like to write another post, but no time, no time right now…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
yesterday as i walked up the front walk i realized that our flag that has been waving gaily all summer reads “happy spring.” maybe time to replace that, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
the thing is…late monday afternoon i suddenly decided i needed to start cleaning the walls of the screened porch. they’re siding and they’re visibly dirty and have been that way…forever. so i started on a little section and then, just because, i swiped at a bit of the ceiling with my windex-soaked rag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
we’ve been living here for 12 years, as far as i can recollect, and once, a few years ago, i tried to clean a spot on the ceiling because it’s criss-crossed with all kinds of filth. but i couldn’t get it cleaned (for some reason) and decided it was permanently stained so i needn’t bother with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
but on monday i realized i had been completely wrong and with a little elbow grease and quite a bit of windex i was able to get the ceiling clean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
so i worked on it for a couple of hours and made a little progress, but it’s not fun to clean a ceiling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
i worked on it again for an hour and a half yesterday, and it’s coming along ok but will take quite a few more hours because i’ve started also cleaning the walls\/windowframes at the same time. and the floor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
it’s all so dirty and at least the ceiling hasn’t been cleaned in at least twelve years, but probably longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
i’m hoping that once i accomplish this i won’t need to do it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
meanwhile…later on monday kevin and i started to go for a ride on my pontoon boat but kevin announced that the lift couldn’t drop any lower. our new lift raises from the bottom, and the lake level has dropped a lot and if we’d waited another day we probably wouldn’t have been able to get the boat off the lift, which would be bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
so we decided we needed to take the boat out of the water right then, which plunged me into a pretty sad sadness. why haven’t i gone out on the boat more this summer? which is what i say ever year; there’s never enough boating for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
we realized that this is the reason almost all of the other boats have lifts with little roofs over them; these lifts are overhead lifts, meaning that they can drop way down into the water. i feel annoyed that the guy who installed our lift didn’t point that out, and we’ll have to invest in an overheard lift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
but then this morning kevin said he thought that we could secure the boat to the end of the dock. wow! that’s fantastic news! except he said we should power-wash and wax the pontoons since the boat will be sitting in the murky water for a few weeks, til we finally pull it out for the winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
meanwhile i feel i need to finish up cleaning the screened porch because i’m afraid that if i walk away i won’t get back to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
but time is of the essence in getting the boat back into the water. we took it out on October 28th last year, so we have a few precious more weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and the filthy screened porch will always be there waiting for me…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
so now i have to jump up to go for a walk with amy and mom, and then so much activity for the rest of the day…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ok then,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
mrs. busy hughes in the midst of so much turmoil and pandemic in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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