Saturday, April 3, 2010

Throwing something?

Why are ‘throw rugs’, called that?
Don’t we actually place them in the locations that we want them to be?
Laying them gently in the most beneficial part of the home to attract people’s feet to be wiped off or better yet to leave those bacteria infested shoes?

I suppose if I were to be informal with my art deco designed small ‘artsy’ pieces I might find the urge or the need to surge and actually heave them into the air, but not in the near future, just that thought makes my arms ache.

If you haven’t guessed already… today I took it upon myself to enhance the cleanliness of our enchanting home, once again.
And I placed, with care, our darling colorful artful designed carpet sections into the washing machine to renew their sharp colorations.
Hubby was kind enough to take them outside for me and place them all on our clothesline. But of course, they could go into the dryer, but today with such low humidity and temperatures soaring into the mid eighties, and so why not take advantage of the glorious aromas that fresh air has to offer!

Even our large area wool rug, see now that is a logical name, it is a rug and it does take up an area, moving on… it was also washed but this time by dear sweet Hubby way down on the dock where it also would be drying due to its large size and heftiness when wet. Ah wool, you are all yelling! Yes, it is one hundred percent wool but I used to wash it myself in my healthier days for we do have it for quite a few years, but so long as the water is cold and the detergent ugh, there you go again, gentle detergent is appropriate and all that we have managed to do is make the aquatic pastel print that much more vibrant, truly! Consequently the big thing is still drying at this hour and may not be completely dry until sometime tomorrow.

Another thing we did tonight that we haven’t done in years, literally which does mean actually, we used our dishwasher to pre-rinse our dinner dishes, and we’ll fill it to full by tomorrow too, I hope!
Green clue: As we all know, a dishwasher uses less water than actually washing them individually in the sink.
But with just the two of us without our sons being home all these years I have been and so has Hubby been washing everything by hand in the sink, whoa, you all say! Yes, you are completely correct that was wasting water BIG TIME, shame on us.
Us with a rain barrel and composter and veggie garden and recycling peeps, etc, etc, etc… us hypocrites!
On our side of the story, yes we have now seen the light, but honestly we felt that we would run out of dishes before we could fill the darn thing up! So buy more dishes I hear you all saying, OK, I will send you all the bill, divvy it up! LOL We will be as careful as we can with our water since it is city water and quite dear in price, you betcha!

Good night to all and to all count those blessings and we will too!

PS I was amiss in not mentioning the death of a handsome actor that we all knew and enjoyed watching for years, Mr. John Forsythe of Dynasty and Charlie’s Angel’s fame, not to mention all those major motion pictures. He passed away on April first at the age of ninety two; we should all live at least that long, you will be sorely missed; what a gentleman.

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