One Down, Ten to Go - October 17, 2024 @goldenoakfarm

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On Thursday morning I was up at 5:30AM and got my post up. Next was to clean up the kitchen. Then I sat down to make all the phone calls and work my way through the health insurance mess.

I finished about 11AM and made some lunch and got started emptying out the bathroom. All that was left were the rainbows from the newly washed prisms in the window. The whole window had been done on Tuesday. My helper friend arrived at noon and he started vacuuming the ceiling and walls.

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I had brought the things needing dusting and polishing to the kitchen table. I got started cleaning all the pictures first, and then moved onto the other things. I had to take the heater apart to get the dust out and it took quite a while to get it back together.

Once he finished the walls and ceiling, he got started on cleaning the shower. Once that was done, he moved onto taking things off the shelves in the cabinets and dusting the shelf areas and putting them back.

I had taken down the shower curtain and washed it and the liner. When the shower was back together, I hung them back up.

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I moved on to washing up all the things needing that. He got the floor washed and then we started putting the bathroom back together.

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Finished!

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It smells so nice in there now and is clean and bright. I just wish I had the energy to glue the wallpaper down, the only job left undone. Now we just have 10 more rooms to clean over the winter…

I went to sit down as it was 4PM and my helper friend went out and resumed cleaning out the New Herb garden. He finished it just before he had to go.

I got an acorn squash baking for supper and had it with some sausages. I was in bed just after 8PM.

On Friday my helper friend arrives again at 8AM. I have to rearrange the living room to accommodate a twin bed for my sister who arrives on Friday evening. So we will be doing that. When that’s done, I’ll send him out to the Big garden to clean out anything wiped out by the frosts we’ve had each night all week.

My general helper is briefly back in the area. She offered to come do a job on Friday so I suggested getting the white spirals on the Little Trees and making sure the mulch is pulled away from the tree trunks and branches.

Once the leaves and grass dry out I have to mow up the leaves. The mower guy brought the mower back on Wednesday. That ought to finish me off for the day.

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Keep it up with your good work
I love how you wake up early though
It’s a good practice

I love how you work with proofs
That’s nice and I’m happy you did all you were supposed to
Nice one!

The people who work with you always make your work fast
That’s a good one

Finally it is actually bouncing back as it is just a matter of time