Life on a family farm
in the wilds of
Upstate New York
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Cows, Column, Accounts and Company
Are on the list for today. One milking down. One newspaper column down. Bookkeeping done and backed up. Depreciation list updated. Company to arrive later...hopefully by then the house will have reached the appropriate level of clean for this particular visit. (There are levels of clean at Northview, ranging from best friend clean...some surfaces are dusted and you can get through the dog hair without a guide....... to in-law clean...which is a height we rarely attain.) The clean required today is a fairly low level, somewhere around best friend clean. We aren't there yet.
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Still to go..a trip to bank and post office, picking up Becky at college and night milking (including remembering to turn on the tank). Night calf feeding. Nighty-night (which will be most welcome).
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LOL...I am striving for in-law clean this week, though it is my mother that is coming to spend the weekend with Megan while we are away. In-law clean is a full scale red alert!
My in-laws are freaked out by dirt, which makes me love it more. They show up in white tennies and white pants. Don't they know? DOG MAGNET!! Our dogs get silly when they see/smell us in "town" clothes and sure enough they like to jump on with clean clothes. Tee Hee
OH We know all about the dog hair thing here. I never saw a dog shed as much as Pepper does. I gues it is due to the extreme temperature changes we get her during winter. Poor thing, she just can't get adjusted. Our inlaw clean, or full scale red alert is when my parents are coming. They live so far away that it only has happened once but my wife cleaned things that I thought you didn't have to clean! LOL! She was like "Merry Maids" up in here!
We have the same cleaning levels here too. Dog hair this time of year is horrendous, especially long border collie hair. Have a great time at the show too!
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In-law clean, I love it. I'm guessing that's when you have to sever your ties to the dust bunnies.
ReplyDeleteI'm curious. When you have black and white dogs (and cats) do the black hairs rush to the white stuff and the white hairs glom on to the black?
Jan, good bye to dog hair, dust bunnies, the whole shooting match.
ReplyDeleteAnd naturally on the hair...it is the nature of things after all.
LOL...I am striving for in-law clean this week, though it is my mother that is coming to spend the weekend with Megan while we are away. In-law clean is a full scale red alert!
ReplyDeleteMy in-laws are freaked out by dirt, which makes me love it more. They show up in white tennies and white pants. Don't they know? DOG MAGNET!! Our dogs get silly when they see/smell us in "town" clothes and sure enough they like to jump on with clean clothes. Tee Hee
ReplyDeleteOH We know all about the dog hair thing here. I never saw a dog shed as much as Pepper does. I gues it is due to the extreme temperature changes we get her during winter. Poor thing, she just can't get adjusted. Our inlaw clean, or full scale red alert is when my parents are coming. They live so far away that it only has happened once but my wife cleaned things that I thought you didn't have to clean! LOL! She was like "Merry Maids" up in here!
ReplyDeleteStacy, I haven't been to that point in quite some time...although I do wish I was
ReplyDeleteNita, dogs and cats...they just know who loves 'em.
Tim, I hate housework! Fortunately we don't get much company lol
Oh I love it! Give me 'best friend clean' any day!
ReplyDeleteLordy. I haven't had to do 'in-law' clean in years. Gosh. that's sad isn't it?
From my perspective, you are a dynamo and don't need EVER to apologize for critter fluff on the divan.
We have the same cleaning levels here too. Dog hair this time of year is horrendous, especially long border collie hair. Have a great time at the show too!
ReplyDeleteCathy, it always cheers me up when I see that you have commented...you are always kind and I thank you.
ReplyDeleteLinda, yeah, we have three of them, although only one has long hair. I swear you could windrow the hair!