Village Squire, 1977-02, Page 22Even the blue river on my needlepoint
picture is now muddy water and the sky
has storm instead of blue clouds!
I watch the spruce and cool women on
television show to us poor souls how they
can have a spotless home by buying one
spritz top bottle of - you name it, there are
dozens. A few of these ads and I go into a
deep depression that usually tides me over
the spring cleaning period and finds me,
come June, with nothing done.
I carried on a lengthy battle with my
stove. How to stop spatters and rescue
myself from the horrible job of getting it
clean? I decided that if I covered
everything with a lid no spatters could
escape. Have you ever tried broiling a
steak with a lid over it?
Even our imperturbable television
friends admit that cleaning a stove is a
chore; which is heartening in itself. The
problem was solved when my old stove got
so coated it became impossible to wedge in
a baked potato without touching the sides.
We bought a self cleaning oven!
Rings around the collar were the blight
of my life until 1 offered my services as
shirt buyer for the family. I figure that, if I
buy all shirts with black and white stripes,
ring around the you know what will be
eliminated; just become another black ring
among many.
Spots on rugs, and I'm not blaming
anyone, suffice to say that the culprit has
four legs, were driving me up the wall.
After careful shampooing they would all
disappear but, once my back was turned,
some gremlin would always creep in and
paint them back on again.
There was only one solution - move the
furniture over the top of the spots and,
instantly, they became invisible.
It's getting to the point now, though,
where people find it more than a little odd
to see a television set in the middle of the
room and a chesterfield four feet from the
wall; especially when it's a bed chesterfield
and the other wall is only four feet in front!
Even the furniture fights me. We had
weekend guests and this necessitated
putting the leaf in the dining room table to
accomodate the extra diners. As we pulled
at the table, to insert the leaf, the two
halves came apart alright - but, two of the
legs fell off! It ended with the guests on
their knees helping to put the thing
together again. Well, nobody can say we
don't provide entertainment!
The fact that summer pests - no, I don't
mean children - such as flies and
mosquitoes carry armies of germs was a bit
of knowledge I picked up along the way.
Here's something I can handle, I told
myself. The most powerful pest killer
known to man was purchased. It worked
great, the flying insects were gone in one
day, but imagine my surprise when, with
the windows being open, all the dogs in the
neighbourhood stopped scratching!
It's no wonder that, when gomeone
shakes my hand and greets me with the
words, "How's the battle?" - I faint!.
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