From Where I Sit

Cleaning tools

The perspective is different when you are sitting on the kitchen floor.  There's lots of time to think, to ponder, to write blogs in your head.  Keep the scrub brush moving on the next six squares.  Spray, scrub, wipe, rinse.  There are more than 400 squares in my kitchen and family room.  I scrubbed them all, with a brush and a powerful cleaner.






It's odd that in the 20 years since the house was remodeled, there's been only one product that would actually take all the dirt off the floor. If it's mopped with anything other than the famous cleaner solution, the dark areas merely become a lighter shade of gray. About a year ago I ran out.  The whole floor had become that unpleasant hue.

The squares in the upper half of the picture had been mopped but
are still gray.  The lower scrubbed squared are bright and white.

So one of the most inspiring of all the Things I get to do today (now that I have more product) is clean, really clean, all those 400 plus squares.  Some obscure ones have been waiting for four years--proof that I'm not a compulsive cleaner.  And from the vantage point of the floor, inspiration comes easily--the dingy cupboards will be next, then the windows.  It's funny that from down here on the floor, the baseboards are really showing their wear--new paint for them and, of course, new paint for the walls.