Zonked

Love the smell of laundry dried in the sunshine!

R2D2 shop vac perched on a milk carton.

Everyone wanted to hang out in the barn once it was clean.

Bella even wanted to bring her toys in.

Darby gives the fresh barn her stamp of approval. Yep – those are all her hoofprints!

Ahh … mom … this toy has caught my foot.

Don’t take it off! It makes a great clacking sound when I walk.

It is a good thing some rain is coming tomorrow to help to temper my spring cleaning fit!! I’m zonked! We hung the first laundry of the season outside – mmmmm – smells like fresh clean air! And then I somehow found myself vacuuming (yep – still crazy for the vacuumed clean feeling) the Bully Barn! There were so many cobwebs and a thick THICK layer of fine dust everywhere. I took out the shop vac –  filled a bucket with some lemony clean smelling soap – and went up and down and up and down that ladder. I got to every rafter and nook and cranny. You know something though … when you clean a barn … and stop and look at it after you’re done. There isn’t the same sense of ‘sparkle’ that you can notice in a ‘human house’. 😉 But I KNOW it is clean. Then I needed to dig out the ‘summer doors’ and the ‘winter door’. I can totally see how one city can get buried by the next … It is amazing how much soil, wood chips, gravel … can accumulate beside any barn door. The summer doors face the north. They are now open. The winter door faces the southwest – and it is now closed. That makes for a well shaded barn to hide from the summer bugs. The next step was to take the fan apart and clean it. I had to grasp a brush extension for another vacuum onto the shop vac hose. I carefully removed all the screws – took off the shields – washed both sides of the fan – vacuumed up all the dust and dirt – brushed the shield grids – carefully replaced all of the screws – gave it one more wash down with the cleaner … and then realized that some critter (much smaller than a donkey) had chewed through the plug cord over the winter. Acckkkk! Not to fear – I took it to my electrician – educated in the Fry School of Fix It – and we’re back in business. I’ve got to go lay down! 😉