All good! We're back online and no modem/password change necessary. Problem involved squirrels chewing through lines, apparently, and something else he didn't really specify, but it was all outside the house.
AND -- thanks
blessed for the encouragement on my "doing things" earlier -- but now I have a "real" ta-da!
I have Swiffer dusted the den/hallway/dining room/center bath... and the computer room. Counting time switching Swiffer duster, this took 48 minutes!
I do NOT know why, but my 3x5 card said 15 MINUTES for just the den/dining/bath/hall section. (There are no doorways between the den/dining/kitchen. They are separated by half-walls and the hallway and the cabinetry in the kitchen, but all open to the other.) WHY I estimated only 15 minutes, I do not know!!!
My 3x5 also said 12 minutes for the kitchen, laundry, and computer room. Ha! I spent approx 15-18 minutes in the (tiny!) computer room alone!!!!
When I timed this, I must not have moved ANYTHING AT ALL. I did move pictures and misc things today, but * whew * that's a pretty big discrepancy in time estimates.
I am also questioning the value of silk plants. Does anyone still have those? Our house looks like it was frozen in 1985. Which is okay with me for the most part -- I still actually like my wallpaper and cabinets, and my furniture (the couch has been recovered a couple times.) We really need to paint and re-do the carpet, which is showing its age, but I'm not having a fit to redecorate or anything. It's just these silk plants. It's impossible to keep them dusted and they just look dull and old. I may just throw them out with the trash one day.
I will do our bedroom later -- while dh is showering, or tonight when he's watching tv in the den. If I dust in the room he's in, it stirs up his allergies. Right now he's lying on the bed reading the paper -- the light is better in the bedroom, according to him.
I also need to change sheets and vacuum, but that will be later tonight or tomorrow, and vacuuming may be next week, for that matter.
LadyM -- YOU were the inspiration to get up and dust! I was reading a book on my phone while the tech was here, so I could sit in the kitchen and listen for him to be coming in and out.
After he left, I wanted to sit back down and finish reading, and then I thought, "No, this would be a good reward for doing some of the WHB dusting..."
Oh. I also need to PUPA in dgrands' room. It's a mess.
Another question... WHY do children seem to always want the bed covers in the FLOOR???
But I can't blame them for the fact that dgs' Sunday clothes are still laying on the bed. I don't wash them every week. He only has them on for 2 hours each week, and most weeks he has his acolyte robe on top anyway. He could wear a swimsuit and no one would know except the people he saw in Sunday School!
I usually rotate through his Sunday shirts, alternate khaki and navy pants, and wash shirts after two wears and pants when noticeably dirty or embarrassingly wrinkled. (His Sunday clothes stay over here because he always spends Sunday nights with us.)
Sunday is the 17th, isn't it? I need to find something green also. DS's band is playing at two different churches here in our community this Sunday, so we will be going to those churches. I wonder what the temperature will be. It is definitely spring here -- Bradford pears and daffodils are blooming EVERYWHERE and my eyes are itching. Allergies may account for ds and dh's cold/flu symptoms. DS tested negative for strep (ddil insisted he go to family doctor with her after dgs tested positive and pediatrician felt dgd should be treated also.) Family doctor said ds' symptoms didn't sound like strep, and his throat must not have had the tell-tale white spots.
Our yard looks terrible. It is mostly weeds anyway. I mean, there's a base of bermuda grass, I think, but we live in the middle of a pasture, so lots of stuff blows in and sprouts and it's just a mess. Our yard man hasn't started yet either, and it really looks bad around the shrubs, where there is no semblance of wood chips anymore. The shrubs were originally surrounded by wood chips, with a border of railroad ties. Now, the railroad ties are deteriorating and the wood chips are GONE. But as y'all know, we've got higher class worries around here.
Has anyone heard the old Stuart Hamblin song, "This Old House"? Well, that's us. I think dh thinks, as the song says, "Ain't gonna need this house much longer, I'm getting ready to meet the Lord." Sigh. (If you look it up on YouTube, I recommend the Gaithers or the Cathedrals.)
Has anyone heard from
Kathryn, or
Harmony?
LadyM -- didn't you speak to Mr. Harmony at one time? I wish Harmony could let us know if she is checking in and I hope she knows how much we are looking forward to her return!
Same with Kathryn... I do hope everything is okay.
Waving to
EVERYONE!!!! It is so good to no longer have to share one little phone with dh in order to have internet!!!