to do (personal version)

[flea]

essential:
get a dryer.
dig up amaryllis before it freezes.
plan for mr. flea's 8 day absence starting the 12th (child care, groceries, social outlets for weekends, library?).
read Heidi's emails and make a plan

realistic:
get rid of old air conditioner in the back yard. diposing of old washer and dryer in the basement would be a bonus.
rake front yard this weekend.
finish up the slipcover project (sew pillow covers; measure for 3 needed zippers; procure and insert zippers; fix the deedle mistake on the arm; hem).
start design and gathering fabrics for new quilt.
general weekend domestic chores (grocery, bathroom, vacuum, laundry).
make plans for Christmas.

ideal (=hahahahaha):
finish quilting Casper's quilt.
scrub kitchen floor. yes, with a scrub-brush. Do the dining room too, while you're at it. Then moisturize them, or whatever one can do to a wood floor whose finish is toast.
figure out how to wash a clear plastic shower curtain. then do it.
dig over garden beds.
procure a saw and cut down excessive growing things that are too large to be lopped.

Comments

[makaidiver.livejournal.com]

> figure out how to wash a clear plastic shower curtain. then do it.
If you don't have a side-loading washing machine (as I don't), then go to a laudromat where they have them, and plop it into a washing machine. The warm water will soften it enough to wash it and it does a pretty good job. It won't be perfect, but it beats spreading it on your lawn and scrubbing it with a scrub brush, unless you really get into your scrub brush this coming weekend and want to. If the holes have ripped, get some pretty colored small binder clips and put those on the top, then feed the curtain hoop thingies through one of the sides of the clip.

> Do the dining room too, while you're at it. Then moisturize them, or whatever one can do to a wood floor whose finish is toast.
Bona Swedish floor care is the best for wood floors. They have a "renewing treatment" bottle of stuff that thankfully I've never had to use. I use the spray, then wipe stuff, as do most of my friends who have hardwood floors. Restoration Hardware sells Bona products, as does my local "professional" lumber yard/hardware store, the one the contractors go to (that isn't a mainly home-improvement hardware chain like Home Depot, Orchard Supply Hardware, etc.). I suspect wood flooring stores sell it too. I've been told conflicting things about Murphy's Oil Soap for floors. One friend swears by it, others shudder in horror at the memory of using it in their ignorance before Bona was known to them.

It freezes where you are?