Thursday, October 24, 2013

Dirty Jobs

This has been a week for getting some of those yucky jobs done.  Erik and I crawled under the house and changed the water filter and furnace filter.  I cleaned out all of the little strainers on the faucets... (we have 6 sinks in the house!)  I unclogged the kids tub drain... gross!  The chicken coop got a good cleaning before winter sets in.  ( 2 of my 4 chickens are going to the butcher on Saturday.... one isn't laying any more, and one eats it's eggs as soon as they are layed!)  I got the last of the apples canned and dried... they were starting to get soft and some were moldy.  I also burned the pile of sticks and weeds that has been accumulating all summer.  I am thinking that I am looking forward to the big storm that is supposed to hit this weekend, so that I can do some jobs that aren't quite as yucky!!!
Posted by Tara McLean Derricott at 7:12 PM

3 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 24, 2013 at 7:34 PM

    thanks for not including pictures.

    SM

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  2. MONT-E ZOOMEROctober 24, 2013 at 11:59 PM

    SM's comment is funny...

    Well, speaking of dirty jobs, yesterday we emptied both barrels of compost and moved the composter to another spot, then got a big load of moo-poo and tossed it out on the gardens. Today we had to dig out the garden rocks that got buried under the moo-poo.
    A couple days ago I lost my one and only tapestry needle and it was like looking for a needle in a haystack. I vacuumed all the furniture, under the cushions and everywhere, and finally found my needle amongst the other debris in the bottom of the vacuum canister, plus 61 cents that had been buried in the armchair. :) We also did chores at Granny's...vacuumed and mopped, washed and vacuumed their car, blew out their garage with the leaf blower and put up their Halloween lights, then came home and washed our outside windows and some of the dirty windowsills. We brought the hose in a couple days ago with the power nozzle and flushed all the drains. We also are trying to beat the winter storm that is predicted. Today was a beautiful fall day with the sunlight shining through the golden leaves and we took G&G over to the park for a picnic lunch.

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  3. loriOctober 25, 2013 at 8:25 AM

    yep us too - winterizing everything, raking and raking and raking leaves, last of the canning and dehydrating, washing windows and etc.

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