Thurdays Spring Cleaning

Today I didn't do what I had on my list. I guess I got busy doing other stuff and looking stuff up on the computer. Tomorrow I will have to do two days worth to catch up.

They only thing I did out of the three things on my list was clean the school desk. It was so cluttered there was bearly enough room for Little Man to do his work.

We combined some of the crayons into one box and other stuff into the new empty boxes. I put some books and loose papers away.

Tomorrow will be a busy day. I hope to get started early, before everyone else gets up.

The picture is of our entertainment center that I kind of redecorated. I was going to show a picture of a wood carving my husband did but it was blurry. I will try later. It is in the picture but of course you can't see what it is.
While I was cleaning in the cabinets of the entertainment center, I thought it would be neat to show off some of my stuff. I may do a post on "what's in there". Or I may just do a show and tell on each one over a period of time. Who knows. LOL.
Ok, I am getting a little off subject. See ya tomorrow.

Wednesday cleaning

Today is Wednesday.

In keeping with the challenge put forth by Chrissy at MEANINGFUL DAYS I am in the middle of a big mess. Ha. I have to make a mess to clean a mess.

My cleaning is taking longer than I expected. I am use to just dusting the tops of the furniture but I am going in the cabinets and around the TV and anywhere I can reach. I also went ahead and washed the leather couches and chair and that was on the schedule for Thrusday. It is starting to feel so fresh in here.

A little extra I did was hang a picture on the wall. AHH! We haven't hung much on our walls in the two years we have lived here. It is hard for me to make a whole in the wall but I like the way it looks.

Tips:

1. I am dusting the wood and the couches with a product I got from Melaleuca. I really like the cleaning products from there. I feel safe using them and they aren't harming my family.


2. When I only have small places to mop, I will use a microfiber cloth instead of the mop. I can reach smaller places easier. I wet the cloth and then spray the floor with a cleaning product and them wipe/mop clean.


3. Dust from top to bottom and before you sweep and mop.


4. Don't have baby chickens in your room while you are cleaning. Well, they are in a pen but they continue to spread thier food everywhere. I have to keep sweeping. Hopefully they can go outside soon.

Now I guess I could be finished for today. I may work on the school desk since it is getting messier everyday. And I really need to vacuum.

I don't do windows

Hahaha!! Naw, I really do.





I got all my windows done in the front half of the house. 6 in all, inside and out. It is so nice to be able to look thru them now.





We had a windy rain storm a few weeks back and it blew dirt and dust all over the windows and they had been hard to see thru since then. Now the sun can shine in and I can see out.





Now, for some window cleaning tips. What do I use to clean my windows? Glad you ask.



Club soda and wash clothes.

I just put a sprayer into a litter bottle of club soda and whala..
My wash clothes are mostly older ones and some microfiber towels.

I use several clothes. One for cleaning around the edges of the frame and for the first cleaning of the window. Then a clean one for the second pass. There is usally a lot of lint with wash clothes but after the window is clean and the streaks are to a minimum, I will refold my cleanest cloth and wipe off the lint. I have been cleaning glass and mirrors like this for a LONG time. LOL.

Yesterday I got my spring cleaning chores all done. I think when I wrote I only needed to clean around the wood stove. I just swept that since I had deep cleaned around it not too long ago.

Now, how do you clean your windows? Do you have any tips to pass along? Please share.

Spring Cleaning

I am taking part in a challenge that Chrissy at MEANINGFUL DAYS started. Go read about it and then get to cleaning.

Ok, I am going to post my cleaning schedule for this week.

MONDAY: Sweep the ceiling and walls in the Dining room, living room and kitchen. Clean around wood stove.

TUESDAY: I have to clean a house this day so will not do a lot. I plan to clean windows in living room and dining room (4 windows).

WEDNESDAY: Sweep behind couches, chair and table in Living room. Dust furniture in L.R.

THURSDAY: Dust couches and chair in L.R. Clean school desk, dust book shelf and the bill table (where we keep our bills and stuff).

FRIDAY: Straighten bottom section of entertainment center. Sweep, mop, vacuum.

SATURDAY: What ever needs doing if we are home

SUNDAY: More than likely NOTHING.

Chicken, Vegetables and Rice Yum!

The internet is great.





I was wanting to make something with chicken and rice today and I didn't have any creamed soup, which I am trying to use less, so I went on a search. I like http://www.cooks.com/ so that is where I ended up. I found a recipe for chicken and rice with Italian dressing and veggies. I didn't have any dressing so I did a search for that. I made some Italian dressing to use in my chicken recipe. It is cooking now and smells so good.





Here are the recipes I used from http://www.cooks.com/





Chicken, Vegetable and Rice Casserole





I didn't cover when I started baking and it wasn't done in the time called for. I covered and cooked another 30 minutes.





Itailian Dressing






This is it after we dug in of course. Yum!!

First Kids of the year. Twins.

We got twins this morning. I didn't get very good pictures.

This is the first of about 7 goats, if we keep them all. We are looking in to getting rid of some and getting 2 bred nubians due in March. They are milkers and we would bottle feed the babies.

I just love kidding seasons. Brings such excitement around here. Little man wants to go to the goat pen every 30 minutes. LOL.

I had so much to share that I just made a slide show. Enjoy the pictures.

EDIT: I don't know why the slide show doesn't work so I am deleting it.