anne's chit chat

In the process of deep cleaning the house. The dining room got the deep clean – dusting, mopping, window cleaning, baseboard scrubbing, drawers and shelves de-cluttered and re-organized. Obviously, cleaning makes Judy exhausted. Working on kitchen cabinets next!

As I walked into the backyard I felt something different.

Something definitely was different.

As I looked around I caught my breath.
I couldn’t believe my eyes.
And I smiled with delight!

There was NOT a car parked all the way up in my neighbor’s backyard!

Finally, I can feel a little closer to some sorta suburbia where people park in their garages and chemicals kill their dandelions.

Or something like that…

Pay no attention to the DIRT lawn and green WIRE garden fencing all over the table!

I have decided to deep clean one room at a time, so yesterday all by myself, I pushed the living room furniture into the dining room. I dusted, moped, wiped down, re-organized everything in this room. Next room – dining.

Joel made this absolutely beautiful custom frame for our wedding gift. He brought it over last night and we love it!

The Polar Bear print we had purchased awhile ago from Threadless (can’t find it on their website now though) and it is very important to me.

I care about Polar Bears very very much.

Thanks Joel for being such a great friend!

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I tend to panic and buy spontaneously when it comes to plants. I never quite know which ones to get or where to get them. I usually pick the wrong kind, water too much or too little, and sometimes they live but most of the time they die.

Today I went to Bachman’s and found some plants and pots that I liked and I am going to give it another go! (I went to Home Depot first which proved to be a very sad situation with me holding various packages of garden bulbs of Dahlia’s instead of house plants – I finally had to abandon everything in a corner and walk out with a headache).

Regardless of my past plant experiences — I am going to try very very very hard to keep these babies alive!

Also, did you know that there are three really important houseplants that can improve the air quality in your home? Watch this short video – it is so cool! I found the “Mother in law” one at Bachman’s and brought it home with me!