Monthly Archives: February 2015

Grease Is The Word

Things are progressing slowly at the ranch the last few weeks. The weather turned to crap so with snow and cold we can’t get the roofers out or new electrical in. But we have been able to able to concentrate on our existing home and it is officially on the market!! We’ve had 10 showings in the last 5 days so hoping for an offer soon! With all the showings, we have had to evacuate with the dogs! Our evacuation plan is to hide out at the ranch. Being the optimistic person that I am, I am confident that our house will sell soon and we will officially move into Our Atomic Ranch! So my projects of late have been cleaning. Every wall, floor and surface needs serious cleaning.  I vacuumed 2 bedrooms with hardwood floors and

Yuck
Yuck

a hall and had to empty the vacuum twice!! We threw away mini blinds that I’m pretty sure had never been dusted! So I get

people may not be as fastidious as I am, but if you have spilled food on your wall…clean it!

Clean!
Clean!

It took about 30 seconds! How about random food and

Dirty door!
Dirty door!

and gunk on the door to the basement? This took a couple minutes.

But yes, it gets worse!!

Grease
Grease

This did take a bit more time, and yes, elbow grease! I really didn’t think it would come clean! And although it’s not perfect, huge improvement!!

My clean door is above. Still figuring out how to post photos where I want them!

Two clean doors… Only about 10 to go!!