Good morning, and welcome back once more…to Miz Judi’s Kitchen!
I hope this finds everyone happy and healthy! You can tell spring is in the air, can’t you? Everything is turning green, birds are singing, and it just makes you want to get outside and find something to do! Or, just enjoy the nice weather, sitting in the swing, and watching the little animals go about their daily business.
So, take a few minutes each day, to look around and enjoy what God has offered you! Just sit back and take your mind off it all, take a deep breath, and say thank you God, for I am truly blessed!
We all know this is the time to open up your house, and let the good breeze come in, and to let the winter out.
So look out Dub, I hope you’re caught up on your work, because I’m going to put you up on the roof to do the windows! Between you and me, he’s scared of heights.
I used to have a lady that would come down, and help me out, but she hurt her knee, and can’t do it any longer. I sure do miss her. She had all kinds of tricks, that’d help you get done faster.
I can remember some of them, but not all, so I will try and pass some on to ya’, and it might just help you out.
I remember one thing for sure. We have mylar on our windows, and you can’t use Windex on them. So what she’d do is mix some baby shampoo in the water, and she always used a newspaper to keep it from streaking. Many of you may already have known this, but if not, give it a try.
Another thing she would do is this. You know how hard it is to clean lamp shades? Well, she always carried a paint brush, with her! I tell you, that just amazed me at how good it worked, not only for the shades , but to clean all the hard to get areas of the lamp, and its base too.
She was cleaning the bathroom one day and showed me another trick of hers. She had a slew of them! If you have a shower with the glass doors on it, you know how hard it is to get the water stains off of them. I walked in on her, looked at the shower doors, and couldn’t believe how clean they were. In a flash too!
I asked her, “Diane, what did you do? Change the doors on the shower?” I mean she had them looking like brand, spanking new.
She looked at me and started laughing, and said no, it’s just a trick of mine. I asked her, how in the world did you get them that clean?
Well, what she would do is take a scraper, put a rag between it and the glass, and scrub those doors. That’s how she got them so clean. If you try this don’t do it too fast, and be careful not to let your rag slip out from underneath your scraper, and nick the glass.
She also liked to dust with a fabric sheet. She would say it makes the whole house smell good, and you know what? She was right. I put a fabric sheet under the seats of our vehicles too. It makes them stay fresh smelling!
She also used to take a sock, and put it on her hand to clean the blinds. She had all kinds of little tricks to help out with. I am sure going to miss her this spring! We always had a good time, cleaning and laughing together. It made the time go by fast, and was so enjoyable working together.
But she has worked hard her whole life, and it’s time for her to enjoy life some, at her own pace.
I do hope some of these tips will help your spring cleaning go a little quicker for you! Maybe even to the point, you can get ‘er done, get outside, do a little gardening, or just go out and admire our good Lord’s work!
If you try some of these tips, and they work out for you, let me know. If you have some of your own, please let us know as well! I’m always looking for some short cuts, to help ole’ Dub out.
So let’s get our spring cleaning done, get outside and watch our husbands keep the yard work up! Remember, it’ll take them all summer!
Once again, I’m sure gonna miss, Diane, but oh well, I’ve still got Dub!
Come to think about it from that standpoint…Lord, grant me patience!
Till next time keep a smile on your face, and one in your heart.
May God bless each and every one of you!
Deb
How about I pull a Dub this morning and leave you guys with a couple of jokes?
**After being married for 44 years, my husband looked at me the other day and said … ”Forty four years ago we had a cheap house, a junk Buick, slept on a sofa bed and watched a 10-inch black and white TV, but I got to sleep every night with a hot 23-year-old girl. Now … I have a $500,000 home, a $20,000 Jeep, a nice big bed and a large screen TV, but I’m sleeping with a 62-year-old woman. It seems to me that you’re not holding up your side of things.” And I, being a very reasonable woman, told him to go out and find a hot 23-year-old girl and I would make sure that he would once again be living in a cheap house, driving a junk car, sleeping on a sofa bed and watching a 10-inch black and white TV.
**Did You Know This About Leather Dresses?
Do you know that when a woman wears a leather dress, a man’s heart beats quicker, his throat gets dry, he gets weak in the knees, and he begins to think irrationally!?
Ever wonder why?
It’s because she smells like a new Truck!
**He said to me: Shall we try swapping positions tonight?
I said: That’s a good idea – you stand by the stove & sink while I sit on the sofa and do nothing!
**He said to me: What have you been doing with all the grocery money I gave you?
I said to him: Turn sideways and look in the mirror!
**He said….What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is every night?
I said. . . A widow.
** He said to me: Why are married women heavier than single women? I said to him: Single women come home, see what’s in the fridge and go to bed. Married women come home, see what’s in bed and go to the fridge.
** Two blonde girls were working for the city public works department. One would dig a hole and the other would follow behind her and fill the hole in. They worked up one side of the street, then down the other, then moved on to the next street, working furiously all day without rest, one girl digging a hole, the other girl filling it in again. An onlooker was amazed at their hard work, but couldn’t understand what they were doing. So he asked the hole digger, ‘I’m impressed by the effort you two are putting in to your work, but I don’t get it – why do you dig a hole, only to have your partner follow behind and fill it up again?’ The hole digger wiped her brow and sighed, ‘Well, I suppose it probably looks odd because we’re normally a three-person team. But today the girl who plants the trees called in sick.’
See ya’ next time…Deb!