a full body workout

In anticipation of my paternal family reunion,
I washed all of the house windows, inside and out.
Does anyone besides me think that 
window washing should qualify as a full-body workout?
Really - 38 windows inside and out, 
and 6 of them are sliding glass doors.
(I was so achy the next day that I thought I might just need to take a day off!)

But here's the rub (teehee - rub :)
I had purchased a new product about a month or so ago -
a product that the sales gal said she just loves to use on her windows, including her car windshield.

So, after my 38 windows were all squeaky-clean,
I went to the cleaning cupboard and grabbed 
(what I thought was) the new Waxy-cleaning-stuff.
Read the directions, and squirted wax on the inside of 
my first sliding patio door and rubbed away.  
Looked pretty good!
Did the other three sliding patio doors (inside).
Then did them on the outside, too.
Called it a day.
I went and showered and had a sit-down/relaxing stitching time 
in my lazy-girl chair before bedtime.
The next morning, as the sun rose on my house
(and windows),
I realized that my squeaky-clean windows were a
waxy, smeary mess!!
And me so tired and achy that I just had to laugh!

Fast forward to the end of this week,
and I'm still cleaning in anticipation of the reunion...
and what do I find in the food pantry???
(I don't know why the food pantry, but that's where it was.)
The Glass Wax product that I had purchased!
Me, oh my.
So, today, I rewashed all of the waxed windows and sliders.

And then I waxed ONE of the sliders so see what happened
if I used the right product.

SO much better! and the see what happens with the right product?

Bad window washing job

a very good wax - NOT for windows!

I crack myself up.
So, now my windows look so much better.
AND, I've had two full body workouts this week!

 

NOT the thread kind of meanderings...

I always feel as though I'm meandering.

Meandering through my thoughts, and meandering with thread...

processing the "stuff" going on in my little part of the world.

This post is Not about quilting,

but a couple of random, make-me-smile things...

As I was driving this past Saturday

on my way to a quilt shop meeting with a friend,

I saw a sign.

Really,

I saw a sign that I wished I could take a picture of to share with you.

But I was driving, so couldn't get a pic,

I think that is frowned upon, kind of like texting and driving... 

but, anyway,

here's what the sign said,

in it's hand-lettered fineness:

YARD Sale

(and under that, in caps,)

INSIDE.

Does that make you smile like it made me smile?

Wouldn't that make it a tag sale,

or barn sale,

or even a garage sale???

Then, just enough time had gone by that I had processed that

and lowered my level of grin,

I came across

another sign...

this one was a little more folk art looking in it's hand lettering,

and much bigger - maybe on a sheet of plywood,

so pretty big and standing with the 8 foot tall side vertical:

SECOND SATURDAY

of every month

CHICKEN SWAP

I  immediately laughed.

Out loud.

Then I called my brother.

(NOT the brother that has the wedding food chickens.

He's not needing to trade any chickens,

as he got the meat chickens that he wanted.)

I called the other brother.

He loves raising his chickens.

He even has a T-shirt that asks if you

"have hugged your chicken today".

And, no, he isn't ready to "swap" any right now,

but he might just have to take a ride someday....

just to check out the process of swapping,

in case he "has an unruly one" or something like that.

Happy Day to you!

Hope that made you smile, too.

Next up:

meanderings with thread