Basically, yesterday's freeze warning was superfluous. Clouds came, the cold air stayed north of us and our rush to salvage crops, flowers and other vulnerable entities was premature.
Don't get me wrong -- today was not a warm day. Far from it. But, what bloomed yesterday, was still there to greet us this morning (even as we had moved some of the garden indoors).
Still, it was warm enough for me to say "okay" when Ed proposed a window washing project after breakfast.
It always surprises me a little when he initiates anything that has elements of cleaning or tidying. And I never turn him down. Who knows when the next cleaning surge will come.
We take out old rags and we set up the ladders and I wash down the lower half of each window and he washes down the upper half and I'm thinking the whole farmhouse looks like it had a makeover, just because of the sparkling clean windows.
The rest of the day is just as agreeable and tidy. We pluck this and that in the yard, we play an ever brilliant game of tennis, I attend a yoga class and Ed attends to removing an AC unit from the sheep shed...
...and we play with photos, and with Isis, and photos with Isis...
Evening comes. We do not eat dinner together -- I eat delicious Sri Lankan food with students at my colleague's house and Ed eats left over tomato soup at home...
The weekend is done. I do feel that we have attended to things here at the farmhouse: we got ready for winter, even if winter didn't arrive as expected. Which, of course, is a good thing.
You're my post-it note. Fensterputzen. Ai Ai Captain !!
ReplyDeleteMaybe the worst doesn't materialize because we've prepared for it so well-- although, of course, that cannot be said about frost.
ReplyDeleteI like that you are out in your socks. At our first place in Denmark, when we had neighbors all over the place, we were always running outside with our socks on for whatever reason (usually to catch a child), and they thought it was so strange-- that's because they all keep clogs (either white or black, everyone has the same brand) next to the door for such unexpected outdoor trips.
Now don't get too grossed out when I tell you we removed the AC unit from the living room window the other day and washed the window there (just that one) for the first time in 11 years. I know. Gross, huh? But we never took the AC out of the window until now and I did it only to get that window washed finally. Now the AC is living under a table in the living room for the winter, it's a love accoutrement to our decor.
ReplyDeleteI'm envious of your clean windows! Does the Ed-and-Nina-Cleaning Co. travel to the East Coast to do windows? We could throw in a lobster dinner or two?
Nena's 99 Luftbalons Song -- I had to look up what 'Fenesterputzen' was. Clean windows!
ReplyDeleteregan - more often, I dash out in slippers. Being Polish I am wedded to slippers indoors yearround. Socks outside are suboptimal because they pick up wood chips! Yesterday, I was struggling to keep the cat from jumping off -- sort of like keeping a 2-year old from jumping off. (I must confess that for the cooler seasons, I also have a pair of clogs in the mudroom!)
Bex -- I'm tempted to take you up on that, that's how lobster deprived I feel! Next year, my spring east coast trip should be to your neck of the woods. You supply the rags, the vinegar or Windex and the lobsters.
Oh, I love clean windows, just not washing them! You and Ed make a great getting-it-done team!! Love the photos of you and Isis, too.
ReplyDeleteDiane -- the quick photo shoot was because we are getting new (no foreign transaction fee) credit cards (because the free year is up on the old ones) and this new card permits use of your own photo for it. Ed said he'd put one of me with Isis on his and I was trying to look "credit card worthy!"
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