A Big-ish Clean-up

 September. We are finally having overseas visitors. An excuse to get rid of a little more rubbish and do a little cleaning.

They've all been here before so they know what sort of house we keep. A rather disorganized one.

But one where you won't go hungry.

Yard work and removing big rubbish always seems so much easier to me.  Instant rewards.  Whereas I'm the only one who is going to notice if the furniture is dusted or the floors are cleaned.  Or there are smudges on the cabinet doors, or the windows are clean, or the doors need scrubbing after pouring rain and red saharan dust, or, or .  In fact if all those jobs got finished I think anyone entering would notice a shine.  The biggest indoor job is going to be taking down all the pictures and plaques around the fireplace and cleaning the soot off the wall before we start this winter's fires and smudge it again.  That's what I hate,  it all gets dirty again.  All our windows and doors are open 24 hours a day still, with bug screens.  The dust floats gaily in settling all over the room in a nice thick coating.  Spider webs can be removed but the spiders are still here and more webs will appear overnight.

So, to outdoors.

We needed all the help we could get. Yes, that's Another washing machine to be removed from our back yard

Still a bit of cleaning to be done here but big rubbish has been removed A young lad fits a very large fan. All ready to cool us down when we have a family gathering.  We won't be bbq-ing because there is still a fire hazard but the outdoor cooker and gas grill will be fired up.

Another 'mastora', as in a whizz at fixing motorbikes, and second cousin once removed, had a look at my quad bike. It has been out of action for a month. The lights went out one night coming back up the mountain. Not a good time for bike lights to fuse. K on his motorbike drove alongside me to light the way and I turned on the flash so others could see me .

The road was damn dark but mostly empty.

I'm over the quad bike and would quite happily just use the car but the boss has decided that it must be fixed.

Consultation

This carpet should have been cleaned and stored for the summer but it's huge and it got left, folded up outside.  Now it's finally cleaning time

In amongst the folds were a dozen or more of these wasp nests.

They are made by a wasp with dangly legs which here is called the 'builder wasp'.

They come away easily but leave a muddy mess.  The carpet had to be scrubbed back and front.  It's cleaned and dried now and put away in it's protective bag.  

And now what is left to be done is for K to bundle up all his tools and fill up another rubbish bag with old rubbish bags, empty oil cans and the like so I can wash down the tiles and clean all the outdoor chairs in time for our welcome meal for the first family visitors from Downunder.