This will be my very first blog. I decided to start this cleaning blog a year ago so I could hold myself accountable for keeping a clean home. I’ve procrastinated a bit.
So, first let me tell you about an issue I’ve had with keeping a clean yard:
I get distracted. One of the two days in April when it didn’t rain, I went out to pull weeds and wait on the Tree and Landscape Company to come prune our Bradford Pears. We have twenty of them.
While down on my knees pulling the first grip of grass, a rabbit leaped from under a rock and sprinted across the yard.
Then my dog, Zee, TOOK OFF!
“ZEE! NO!” I cried. Zee chased the rabbit across the street to our neighbor’s back yard.
“Zee, come back!” I yelled again. Zee went under the neighbor’s fence into their neighbor’s yard.
I took a deep breath, put down my spade, went inside to get my car keys. I found her three houses down—barking, trying to get under a shed.
My thoughts were—I’ll kill her now and get it over with before the tree guy gets here.
In a sickly, sweet tone, I said, “Zeeee, come here, honey. Good girl. Good little Zeeber-head dog; just let me get this leash snapped…”
Zee looked at me like “why are you not helping me get the rabbit?"
"It’s under the shed.
Here watch my nose; I’ll show you.”
I gently put my hand around her collar and—snapped!
Got you! You little shit!
I drove back into our driveway just as the tree surgeon showed up to prune the trees. I knew that I couldn’t actually kill Zee that day, so I locked her in the fence.
I found my spade in that flower bed yesterday.
There are other issues I have with cleaning and yard work, but I made a decision to keep this first blog short and to the point. Next week I have plans to transplant some perennials, plant some annuals, and mop the kitchen. I’ll let you know how that goes.
Karen
