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I get the desire to detail! I am not a stellar housekeeper, but every so often I get a notion to deep clean something. Last spring found me with toothpicks, carefully pulling out gunk from the little cervices around light switches, the actusl switch part, not the cover. However, at this moment there is toothpaste splatter on the bathroom mirror. I should go take care of it right now. (Ps, I would just like to say, I am able to brush my teeth without spraying toothpaste splatter everywhere, but someone else who lives here is not, just so you know the endless job of keeping the mirror clean is not my doing!)

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A thrifty Thursday will be had if, and only if I can stay off the internet every time I stumble across some po-dinkled thing needed for this or that project to be completed properly.

Liz, you are very close to saying goodbye to your lovely friend of a house. I'm thinking it's pretty cool that while the house will reincarnate with new owners, your history and presents remain..good juju all around.

It's too bad about the nice wood ... I remember my mom picking up " old, used furniture" in resale shops in the 60s-70s for pennies on the dollar and then replacing them with cheap, laminate veneer just because they were "new". That old stuff morphed into valuable antique pieces later.....go figure. Tastes change- real wood is irreplaceable and your pineapple bedsteads will live on some day.

Toothbrush and razor blade scraper in hand, I'm off to detail neglected kitchen and bathroom corners- not that I'm such a clean freak; just like to know that what I'm looking at in the future is my own neglected dirt.

Have a great day and good luck, Cicley, finding that nettle in Kirby's haystack of paw-fur.

"Dude, do it now!"

Sheesh.

183.2 today. More HOA stuff today - negotiating the maintenance contract with the landscaper at 9. I feel totally unqualified to do this! I've never negotiated anything really. I usually just pay if it needs to be done. But we asked him to increase his service and boy did he increase the proposal, by 60%. We can't afford that without raising dues and I don't want us to do that. Ugh. I think people see the nice neighborhood and think there are endless coffers, but we don't have that many houses and changing anything often means increasing homeowner's association fees. And to do that, it better be a good reason and landscaping isn't it in my opinion.

I walked Kirby last night and as you know everything in AZ wants to kill you. No soft grass here. If he ventures onto the verge of the road, it's filled with burrs, goathead thorns, foxtails, all manner of sharp things, etc. He's walking like he has stickers or thorns in a few of his paws, but I can't feel anything. I need to keep trying, but he doesn't make it easy. I did buy him boots, but he won't let me put them on let alone wear them.

Anyway, I'm going to go get in the shower and then work on Kirby's paws again.

Take care all!

I do remember deceased DH having to deal with the babysitting/handholding for his clients too. Especially on Real Estate transactions (which he did a lot of). I try not to be a pain.