Spring Cleaning: A Love Hate Relationship…

In preparation for a party my wife is hosting tomorrow (her Mom started selling Mary Kay), we cleaned the house today.

After the aforementioned difficult karate class, we had lunch at Steak and Shake and returned home to begin the cleaning extravaganza. We had many items on the To Do list, which started with a few logistical items relating to our fence situation.

I was happy to find that when the city surveyed my plot before we sold the house, they put designation markers in the corners of my property. That makes placing my fenceposts pretty easy, however it did present a few new wrinkles. The neighbor’s driveway on the right side of my house runs right down my property line. No big deal, though, because he doesn’t care how we do things. He even offered to let us tie the fence onto his garage so we didn’t have to actually run a length of fence alongside it.

The neighbor at the back of my lot has a garage that is technically one inch onto my propery. She’s got no problem with us running a fence right behind her garage so long as we put pavers or white rock in so weeds don’t grow up there.

The left neighbors have an existing fence. They have given us permission to use their fenceposts, however for reasons unknown their fence is about two feet diagonally from the corner of my lot. We’re going to plant a fencepost on my property and run a short length of fence to their fencepost so I have the option of re-running the fence down my actual property if the need were to arise. That was a fun logistical job to undertake on a Saturday, plus I got to meet the back-of-my-lot neighbor for the first time. I’m glad she was nice.

After that, my lovely wife and I spent the remainder of the day performing the following feats: bathing the dog, cleaning and vacuuming the rabbits cages and surrounding room, and cleaning the living room and kitchen. I love a clean house, however I hate the actual act of cleaning. It would really help if we cleaned up intermittantly between major cleaning sprees, but we’re just too lazy. So we’re always stuck with a full eight hour day of cleaning when it needs to happen. One of these days we will learn our lesson.

We still have a little more work to do before the party tomorrow. If anyone needs me, I’ll be in my basement. Probably online. 🙂