Day 325, Year 9: The Joy of Cleaning
Date: Thursday, September 11, 2014
Weather: Mostly Sunny, Daytime Temp in the mid-70’s F
Location: Quissett Harbor, Falmouth, Massachusetts
Yes. I’m being facetious. There is no joy in cleaning, but it is one of those things that must be done. So you make the best of it. Our plan for the next couple of weeks is to spend our mornings cleaning and organizing on the boat and our afternoons working on the storage unit and helping out with the grandkids while Heather and Jed chip away at their renovation projects. If we stick to this schedule hopefully we’ll make a dent in what needs to be done before we head south for the winter.
Today’s cleaning and organizing projects were productive. I attacked the cabinets in our aft and forward heads that house cleaning products and Marked worked on our drawer of electronic gadgets. He got out the Satellite phone, charged it, and put it up for auction on Ebay. He did the same with a few other electronic gadgets and threw out an old Toshiba Libretta notebook computer that no longer works. The cabinet above our forward head sink is full of boat cleaning products and I sorted through, got rid of some things that we no longer need, and made of list of things we need to purchase. That cabinet was easy as it just has two shelves. But the cabinet in our aft shower was another story. I keep inside boat cleaning products in that cabinet along with personal cleaning products. If you go by the contents of these cabinets, we must be the cleanest people in the world! The aft head cabinet was a bear because when you take out the two shelves, there is a storage area underneath that I had forgotten about. That is where we keep extra water and fuel hoses. So they needed to come out and be cleaned. And that storage area continues on down to the area under the seat in our shower. So in addition to cleaning the storage area, I ended up cleaning the shower walls, the teak grate in the bottom of the shower, and . . . it felt like it went on forever, but I was successful in getting all of that cleaned.
We then went to pick up Ollie from daycare and take him home for a nap. While Ollie slept, Mark did some consulting work and I did a laundry and picked little cherry tomatoes for Heather and Jed to roast. Jed picked the big boys up after school and then I did a little painting of shelving for Heather while Mark took Sam and Jonah to storage to do a bit of work. So went the day. Tomorrow will be a bit of a repeat of today and then on Saturday morning we will change gears and go to town to watch Jonah and Sam play soccer. Mark works at West Marine on Sunday and then on Monday morning, we’ll start the cleaning cycle all over again. Is there a book about the Zen of cleaning? I need it.
Attached to this log post are a couple of photos Heather sent to us of Ollie in ‘school’. In one photo he is in the lotus position doing yoga and in the other he is in music class keeping the beat with wooden spoons. In both photos you can see just how serious he is about doing just the right thing. He moves at a slightly slower pace than both Sam and Jonah. For example, after nap today, he sat in the front yard with Granddad for a very long time just contemplating the swaying branches of the trees in the wind. Special moments.
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