Spring is here!!!
The azaleas are blooming...
Vespa has been having fun exploring the back yard and all the chirping, buzzing, squawking noises it has to offer...
...and looking just absolutely lovely as always...
I was ready to get started on this deep Spring cleaning right away. These magazines really did their trick--I was motivated!
I started in our master bedroom. I had Carlton help me move the bed out away from the wall, where I dusted and vacuumed and... wait... what's that???
As I dusted the baseboards on the wall that our bed was against (I strongly recommend you check that spot out in your room--you'll be grossed out!), I discovered that our walls were dusty. Like, grossly dusty!
The couple that lived here before us has a pet cat with long, luscious, thick fur. Her name is Libby and she's soooo sweet and cuddly and beautiful. I desperately wanted her to be a part of the bargaining in the contract for the house. Carlton did not concur. So, she still lives with her owners who are good friends of ours (so I get to see her often!). But her fur? It's still floating around here every now and then. For instance, it was stuck to our bedroom walls! Along with dust, eyelashes, and Carlton's awesome man body hair, our walls were practically furry! From this picture below, though, you can tell why neither Carlton nor I ever really noticed how dusty the bedroom walls were. They look normal and... normal. While the walls are a peculiar shade of washed-out pea soup--something I never would have personally selected--I love the color and I'm planning on keeping the walls the color they are.
But when I got up close to the walls and actually looked at them really well, I discovered how disgusting they were! The picture below was taken in one of the corners of the room, where the most dust, etc. had accumulated. Prepare yourselves to be totally grossed out!
And if that didn't set in well enough, here's a picture of two of my dusting cloths. They both started out like the one on the right. The one on the left is what cleaned the walls in my bedroom with 1 part vinegar to 4 parts water. Aside from the wet balls of dust bunny carcasses that I removed from the rag before taking this picture, this rag on the left should be a testament to the grossness that was my bedroom walls!
Oh! As an added bonus, that pesky can't-seem-to-get-rid-of-it dusty scent in our bedroom is gone now!
I had a conversation with a friend a few months back about the hair and fur on her bedroom walls and I was grossed out! I remember asking her what she thought the problem might be. She said she had a feeling it had something to do with her ceiling fan running along with pets (and a husband) who shed like crazy. I've taken a close look at the other rooms in our house, and there seems to be a theme going here: while our master bedroom (complete with ceiling fan running a lot of the time) had dusty walls, our kitchen and living room do not have that problem.
My advise is this: inspect your walls! If they're furry and dusty and can be wiped down (aka not flat paint), wash them NOW!!!!!
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