6 W's

I spent my Presidents' Day

washing

windows

while

listening to

Wicked.

Now I'm tired and sore.

But the windows look wonderful!

Valentines

We got an interesting piece of mail the other day.  It was an envelope from Sadie, Zachary, and Emery.  They sent us some Valentines.  They were hand made - and we loved them! 

Thanks kids for the Valentines!

Window Wells

Last week I decided it was time to clean out our basement window wells. They looked like someone had decorated for Halloween using fake spider webs.  Only the webs weren't fake and I didn't think the missionaries liked seeing them through their windows.  So after exercising - down I went.  I was sure to wear a hat, work gloves, long sleeves, and long pants - to protect from any spider web or spider getting on me.  I took a garbage bag - to collect leaves, twigs, and trash in.  And most important, I took a broom - to get rid of the multitude of webs that had formed. 

It was gross work.  Did I mention spider webs?  There were many.  And along with the spider webs what do you think I found?  Spiders.  Luckily most of the spiders were daddy long legs.  I'm not too afraid of those.  There were a few small unidentifiable spiders - but mostly slow moving daddy long legs.  So in each of the 5 window wells I would sweep away the webs and smash the spiders.  Then I would collect any debris that had collected in the window well.  Last, I would spray around the windows and ladders with bug spray to slow the spiders' returns. 

What surprised me was that in 3 of the window wells I also found lizards.  A total of 5 of them.  Luckily they were dead.  If they were alive and moving around that would have creeped me out - totally.  So I also had to dispose of 5 lizard carcasses.  I can't imagaine why they couldn't/didn't just climb out of the window wells.  I guess they couldn't figure out how to do it.  Four of them weren't too hard to get rid of.  But the 5th one was a monster.  Really!  It's body was longer than my foot.  Here are the photos to prove it.