Extra Chores

Someone emailed asking what we recommend for extra chores as a consequence when things are done poorly or with a bad attitude ... that need doing around the house but are usually lower on the list of priorities. Think spring cleaning ... . Wash House Windows Wipe Baseboards Organize and Wipe Out Cabinets Vacuum Top [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 15:30:56

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New Years Clean Up--Day two

Today is all about shining up the house. I've been hanging out in the kitchen first. I always start in the kitchen since it gets dirty the quickest!Method to rescue, I love their Window Wash. Couple that with a clean microfiber towel and you have a very green window cleaning set! Glass cabinet doors, window and Doors all done, yah!!!Method [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 17:32:00

I am never cleaning my house again

I am sitting here working while a team of four women clean my home for me. And they’re doing a better job than I would do, too ... the ones doing the vacuuming and floor-washing and cleaning of windows. They even cleaned my antique Chinese six-panel wooden screen, which stopped my heart when I saw that the window-washer [more...]

Date: 2008-10-23 21:15:07

talking about inspiration

hi, gabs here - mostly known as evitangel around digiland! it’s my very first post here on vera’s blog and I can tell you I am nervous ... ? I always have a little refresh for the new year. cleaning the house, cleaning my computer that means ... kitty - laying in front of the window, watching outside, sleeping and just enjoying her evening (yes [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 21:22:57

Questions of the Week 30.

1. When did you last wonder if you are in the right path of your life? I honestly can’t remember when. but I’m sure I’ve been there. 2 ... if everybody’s awake, especially the little boy. Taking my time shopping, or window shopping, even ... . After cleaning the house, I need to take a shower, too. 6. Do you ever find it hard not to smile [more...]

Date: 2008-09-06 14:16:32

BidMyCleaning’s Choice Providers

BidMyCleaning’s Choice Providers bid banter No Comments » We know cleaning and we know cleaners! ... of our online scheduling for house cleaning services and the management tools to take care ... like window or carpet cleaning.  You don’t need to start all over with a search for providers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 06:31:00

But Wait—–

But Wait—– January 20th, 2009 I know you’ve seen the commercials for home products, or personal enhancement products which flood the airwaves ... and gadgets which would make everything go better. The house clean, the windows sparkling, little [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 12:22:59

How to Fake a Clean House

The holidays are right around the corner, which means you might have last minute guests delivering good cheer. If they happen to catch you between cleaning days, don’t worry. With just a few minutes, you can fake a clean house! 1. Control Odor! That means investing in a good air freshener, opening a window [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 15:36:38

September’s Sad Song

Enjoy the post-Labor Day rally. It isn’t likely to last ... churning and positioning and window dressing and house-cleaning,” says Jeff Hirsch, editor at the Hirsch [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 15:52:17

Cleaning

The day just slipped on past me, before I realized it. When I got up and cleaned around the house a bit, I started on cleaning files on the computer ... into the other room, and here he was, with the message window up, just having a grand time! The silly boy [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 18:50:00

My Love Affair With Microfiber

I love a clean house. There, I’ve said it. I like walking into my house, breathing in deeply and smelling the pure fresh smell of Amonia nothing ... ? Once! Every year or so, I buy a new batch of a dozen. When you’re done cleaning you take the grimy ... s more to child rearing than bug picking and window washing. How cool is it that I’ve started my tenure [more...]

Date: 2008-07-24 19:46:40

Nani

We were lucky enough to have our Nani from Canada here with us for a few days last week. What a lady! We enjoyed our time together so much ... she stayed with the kids. She was always cleaning and tidying the house her whole stay. One morning she asked me where the window cleaner was, and I admitted that I was embarrassed having her act as our maid [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 04:55:00

Window Cleaning Add-On - CCTV Inspection

Plants twining themselves into window frames & guttering is a home owners nightmare ... : ..."A quick check around your property now could save a lot of time, hassle and money later, warns house ... the house, but there have been some dry and relatively mild days. When you do venture into the garden [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 20:38:00

Screens

In reply to The White House: 1914: Those look like window screens. Maybe taken off for window cleaning? [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 19:29:23

Countdown 16

Just posting some poems. Didn't have a very productive weekend for humanities studies ... ,and slowly I would rise and dress,fearing the chronic angers of that house,Speaking indifferently ... and floralIn my Victorian nightgown.Your mouth opens clean as a cat's. The window squareWhitens and swallows [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 04:35:00

Why Am I Not Where I Should Be?

Liv is at a birthday party.Leon & the other two girls are at soccer.I have the house to myself.Where am I, you may ask? ... I cozied on the sofa with a hot chocolate, fuzzy blanket and a roaring fire, staring out the window ... cleaning!  Oops!  I mean...... cleaning.Why is it, that when we get some time to ourselves, we are still [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 05:00:00

The Simple Woman's Daybook!

Hi everyone, come on in and see what's in my daybook! ... you'll enjoy looking through them :)FOR TODAY Outside my Window... a chill in the air....landscaping ... ...to get a good cleaning on this house todayI am creating...different dishes for Christmas Eve DinnerI [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 16:26:00

Burning Up

It is 28 degree outside and also snowing right now here in Ohio. But here I am, sweating so much while I am cleaning inside the house ... be freezing! It's funny that sometimes we have to crack our window open just to get the right temperature. Like a couple of weeks ago the temperature was 1 degree and we have to open our window since [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 22:31:00

I'm off...

  Things I am grateful for:  a warm fire and my curly tail girls who don't have a problem with enjoying the fire either. I'm off journaling by hand and cleaning.  Who knew the cleaning bug would strike?  It just flew ...   Cville water pipe   Cville woman tree, window, stone wall   Cville house 4   Cville [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 13:51:00

Why Do You Climb?

Once in a while, you’ll have a day where things are so busy that you have no realistic expectation of getting in a ride ... day. And then, almost by magic, a "ride window" appears. An appointment falls through. You finish ... was to start dinner for the family, followed by cleaning up the house. But dinner was made [more...]

Date: 2008-07-24 18:59:25

My Daybook for 01.19.2008

Outside my window...sunny and it is suppose to be 60 degrees today.Hard to believe it is January! I am thinking... From the daycare room.. ... deadlines and pressure! I am hearing..."East to West" by Casting Crowns on Pandora Radio. AWESOME song! Around the house...zone cleaning (upstairs/girls room), organize 12x12 patterned paper, edit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 15:46:46

Mysterious Absence Or Just A Rabid Christian?

I just had an email from a concerned reader asking me where I’ve been recently. That’s nice ... written on a card or in a shop window can send them into a frenzy of rage sadness and feelings ... christmas presents for people (making, not buying) and christmas cleaning my house for christmas [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 22:24:24

Mama's Daybook

For more daybooks, and to join the fun, click on the image above...My Daybook ~ 22 December***Outside My Window .. ... deep cleaning***One of my favorite things ...warm spots in the house like by the corn stove, in front [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 14:48:00

LaMa's Daybook

Daybook.jpg December 22, 2008 Outside My Window... it's COLD!! and darkish ... , you know how very loud this is. Around the house... it's really clean! It received an Advent cleaning [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 23:08:30

A Simple Woman's Daybook ~ Day 17

For TodayMonday, December 29Outside My Window ....the sun has just risen and is casting the most elegant soft light through the woods. It's magical! ... ; of whom shall I be afraid?A Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week....cleaning the house and tackling ... with yellow crescent moons and pink stars. So pretty and soft!I am creating....a prairie doll [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 13:16:00

An un-fun weekend. Blech!

So last weekend was supposed to be a nice calm family weekend.  Do a little house cleaning, visit the little weekend festival at the church, have Ethan ... t break the window or door, but it goes to show how easily a crackhead can get into a car (shouldn’ [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 14:09:02

Hardanger heart

Look at this wonderful hardanger heart my niece have made for me. It is so beautiful made and she also have sewed tiny pink beads on it. Now it's haning in my window together with the beautiful hardanger angel she gave me two years ago. Thank you Linda :) I am now cleaning the house for the christmas holidays. My DD surprised [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 10:12:00

A Simple Woman's Daybook!

FOR TODAY ....Monday, January 12, 2009Outside my window...the sun is shining, its a little colder, and there's frost on the ground.I am thinking.. ... that, all is quiet and peaceful here.Around the house...some cleaning and straightening after [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 14:35:00

The Simple Woman's Daybook

I enjoy participating in Peggy's Simple Woman's Daybook when I am able to.It's a great way to start the week with a positive focus.For TodayMonday, December 29, 2008My last Daybook entry for 2008!Outside My Window...Once again ... ,and a little boy playing cheerfully in his room.Around the house...We need to do an in depth cleaning [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 15:00:00

Birthday Card and Blog Candy :)

I hate to say it but I'm in a rather depressed mood. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I spent all morning cleaning the house and still ... the card I added some jumbo orange brads, the sentiment (punched out with SU!'s Word Window punch [more...]

Date: 2008-10-18 22:54:13

Simple Woman's Daybook: January 12, 2009

Outside My Window ... it's dark. I have been writing and blogging most of the night and it's 4:21 a.m. -- a little past my usual bedtime ... right now.Around the house ... there's much cleaning to do. I have managed to keep up with the laundry [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 10:05:00

When Windows beats Linux: a cautionary tale

When Windows beats Linux: a cautionary tale Posted by Paul Murphy @ 12:15 am Categories: General, Enterprise Policy, Wintel vs Lintel Tags: ... was house cleaning. As part of that, management promptly accepted an EDS sponsored project [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 08:15:01

Recycled Reflection

New Bathroom Mirror Originally uploaded by GraceD We're spiffing up little by little here at Chez State of Grace. Landscaping (pics soon!), cleaning up weirdo stuff that's been around the house forever (i.e., giant terracotta cartoon ... as it appears but Hubs suspended it in the window frame securely with mega-strong but thin cables. A good [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 07:47:21

Terrifying Tuesday: Black Christmas (1974)

With only two days until Christmas to go, I just couldn't hold this picture back any longer ... and smothers her to death with a dry cleaning bag. He drags her corpse into the house's attic and dumps it in a rocking chair with her lifeless eyes looking out the window.  With the girls coming [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 06:10:00

Flawed authentication enables social engineering

So I had my carpets cleaned today. A lot of these services won’t give you and exact time but instead give you a window of time and a phone call when ... van idling infront of my house (why it was unmarked instead of advertising the carpet cleaning services, I have no idea). The short of it is that my neighbor was looking out for me and placed a call [more...]

Date: 2008-07-17 01:51:50

The Lazy Perfectionist

I mistreated my shower. We don't have a window and I had this fabric that I used in my dining room in our old house ... of what I do is simply good enough--my cleaning, my cooking, my hair, proofreading my blog. I only [more...]

Date: 2008-07-14 04:00:00

Preparing Your House for a Flood

Mount weather stripping to all doors and windows. Securely fasten exterior items to your home; this prevents them from becoming flying debris ... , and drying. For carpet water removal, or same day carpet cleaning services check out Article Source ... level. Move hazardous materials to higher levels. This includes oil, cleaning supplies, paint [more...]

Date: 2008-06-10 23:04:19

The Simple Woman's Daybook

FOR TODAY (January 12th)...Outside my window...It is mostly cloudy and chilly, but not really cold.I am thinking.. ... and just left.Around the house...I have been rearranging my kitchen nick-knacks and cleaning the countertops.One [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 19:17:00

Home made toilet cleaner

It's Tip Time again.I used to use a whole stack of 'eco-friendly' cleaners around the house, ... !So I took a friend's advice, and switched to cleaning my toilet with Bicarb Soda and White Vinegar.It ... chemicals. But that's what you want, isn't it?And - if you really want a nice smell, open the window! [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 03:15:00

Coffee Pot Reflections

We spent a few days at the ranch, cleaning barns, and helping where we could. Today, I was watching a cow calve, and since she was doing ok, I decided to come into the ranch house to get a cup of coffee. Sunlight poured through the kitchen window, lit up the coffee [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 12:53:28

Glamour Reel Moments--A Final Recap

I'm afraid there are really only two events in my life right now--the remodel on the house and my recent Hollywood adventures. I'm afraid the rest is just macaroni and cheese and cleaning bathrooms so if you'll forgive ... sides, straining to see if anyone famous was going to get out of that tinted-window vehicle. Nope [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 08:00:00

Are You Moving To Sell Your Property

by Mary Bush We altogether have got the see of somebody important arriving to the house and whether the visitor is an relative-in-law, an old friend, ... -on to a common cleaning here are some steps you can take to gain from that all-important first look: 1.Start ... furniture you don’t mean to move. 2.Paint the front door and window frames, or at least [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 18:34:42

Its Very Quiet

Its crazy how quiet a house can be without a little creature like a hamster. My bedroom is silent all the time now ... at the window with her two cat teddies, talking to them both. They’re apparently going for a walk and the ‘ ... herself.  It means I can do my cleaning, which I should be doing right now. I actually came here [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 15:06:21

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