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Monday, September 18, 2017

Busy as a bee!


We picked these wildflowers along the dirt road..I picked the Goldenrod flowers, and Poppy went through the deep, snaky looking grass for the purple and yellow ones. The two zinnias look pretty bad. 

All summer I've wanted a vase of zinnias for the house, but simply can't bear to cut them. What's wrong with me?? 

These last few days, I've actually been doing some fall cleaning. Remember that dreadful bottle collection in the living room? "Dreadful" because it's me who does the dusting...


the "before" picture from the last cleaning frenzy.


and "after"!


All summer we've had the curtains down. But for fall and winter, with the windows and screens washed and clean, I like the coziness of curtains.


Oh, you can still find dust, I'm not finished yet, but mostly I'm proud of the shiny clean windows and screens...and bottles!


looking out onto the back porch.


and, I washed all the old pots and oil lamps on the porches, and added a clean tablecloth.

have you ever seen anybody as proud of doing a little cleaning?


got the kitchen window washed too and hung the clean curtains. Gosh, didn't see all the wrinkles until now. Maybe the wrinkles will fall out after a few nights of washing dishes in hot water just below them. If not, the ironing board is in the sewing room.

Big ruffled curtains are probably out of style but I still love them.


the old cupboard sure looks better with the dust wiped off.

Still have lots of cleaning to do, but for now I'm off the the grocery store. The kitties finished the last can of food first thing this morning. There will be a lot of meowing before long. 

Thank you, if you're still here. Who wants to hear about cleaning house, anyhow. :)

Love,
Henny


41 comments:

  1. Henny, I am the same way with my zinnias! Yesterday I did finally cut some and just love them. Your flowers look lovely.
    Your home looks so warm and inviting. I would love to come sit in your rocking chair by the fire on a cool Fall evening.
    Thanks for sharing all theses lovely photos!
    Robin

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  2. I can't bear to cut my zinnias either! They are meant to pretty up the garden, and of course for feeding the butterflies. The little hummingbirds like them, too! I surely did enjoy seeing that beautiful, clean house of yours. So pretty! I am in a cleaning mood too.

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  3. I was mesmerized with your showing things and had to laugh when you questioned who would want to see them! I love those fluffy white curtains and didn't even notice the wrinkle. If truth be told Henny, I was painting that set of shelves in my head. I gave it a few coats of Miss Mustard Seed's white milk paint and it really lightened your place up. LOL.

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    1. I would love to put a coat of white paint on several things around here! Which shelves were you thinking of? The old cupboard? Thank you Sharon.

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  4. P.S. Henny, is that the chair you had recovered a while back? I love the material you put on it if it is! It really is a beautiful chair and I see now why you love red.

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    1. Thank you! Yes that is the newly covered chair.

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  5. I love to hear about you cleaning house as it gives me an incentive to do the same! Doesn't it feel good to look over all the clean and shiny surfaces when you are done?! Your home is lovely Henny - I love the warm cozy feel!

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    1. Thank you Bonnie. I've been looking around this morning, wondering which job to tackle next. :)

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  6. Oh good grief, that is tooooooo many bottles, toooooooo far up, for you to have to clean!!!!!!!!!

    Your house look so warm and cozy and inviting! So happy you showed more of it, to us. The fireplace... The comfy chairs... The warm wood... The whole warm ambiance.... :-)))

    I'd be "crowing" tooooo, if I did all that cleaning!!! And I'd sit in that rocking chair, and not get out of it, for at least 4 days!!!!! ,-)

    Ruffled curtains! So pretty! I always remember the ruffled curtains, in movies, that I loved!! I think of 40's or 50's movies. I loved seeing the ruffled curtains, in all the windows!!!!! Loved it. Do you know which movies, I mean... I will have to look some up, and say the titles. Bet you would love watching them too.

    Anyway, the sets, are the most important things, in movies, for me!!!!!! The sets and the clothes. Who cares about the plot???? ,-)

    Received the beautiful cross-back apron. Ohhhh, one of my favorite colors. You wanted my thoughts on it... It fits over me, but I agree, with what you thought... To cut the next one, wider. Because I am probably not the only one, of your customers, who are "Broad In The Beam"!!! ,-)

    Thank you.
    Luna Crone

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    1. Thank you Luna. I don't think you check back for replies, but, I love those old movies too. I'll have to look for "Bringing up Baby". I know I've seen it.

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  7. "Bringing Up Baby" is one of the movies, which has loads of ruffled curtains, all around in "her" aunt's home.

    Many more films. I will look! :-)

    Luna Crone

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  8. Go you! You all have a blessed week!

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  9. Henny, I am wore out just reading about all that cleaning.. that is not a little bit of cleaning! You are a hoot! But, the end result is very beautiful and I love the ruffled curtain, it is so country and charming in a cabin. You are busy as a bee and your house shines with your love...Blessings to you and yours, Terry

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  10. You have every right to be proud of what you accomplished. Housework is hard work but so rewarding once it's done and you can sit back and admire your handiwork. I never get tired of hearing what you and other bloggers are up to. Just like I don't get tired of my sister telling me those same things! She tells me what she cooks and bakes and I know her results are so darn perfect. Oh well, we can't all be that way.

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  11. Love the pics of your clean house! Your kitchen window looks like mine with all the little animals cluttering it up. I thought I could see my little clay chickens on your window... but not sure they would fit. Love the look - but it is a lot to dust(especially the bottle collection).

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  12. Such a nice place! Cleaning and fixing up is very satisfying, I think, and fun to see the results. Love the pretty curtains, too.

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  13. It all looks so good, but now I feel guilty. I need to clean windows and blinds, to say nothing of the dusting. But yours looks great.

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  14. Oh I feel exactly like you do after I've cleaned.
    Great bottle collection. I have one too though not as many as you, and they are a pain to clean. Yours looks great. Reminds me I'd better get after my own.

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  15. diane in northern wisSeptember 18, 2017 at 5:10 PM

    Your house looks spic and span, Henny! And I just love your curtains, especially the fluffy ones. Your energy is making me feel guilty! Guess what hubby and I found yesterday? We stopped in at an old Lodge, by driving down a long road through the woods here in Northern Wisconsin, and we decided to have lunch at the lodge. When we walked in there were old newspapers telling that the Lodge was once involved in a shootout between the FBI and Public Enemy # 1 John Dillinger in 1934. We walked around the saw the bullet holes in windows and walls. So interesting! By the way, John D. and his gang, somehow got away!

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    1. Thank you Diane. Oh, that is the kind of thing I love to do, and Poppy and I used to go for long drives and stop at unusual places. He doesn't much like to go anywhere now. That about John Dillinger is so neat. I love to read about those gangsters. We have a book that came in a set you could order that told about all the different gangsters. Some of the pictures were awful. But it was interesting.

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  16. You're so funny. :) That kitchen window and sill would have me begging to do dishes for you. I love the view from the window (wow!) and all those little treasures on the sills. And what a wonderful place for a feeder.

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  17. You have lots of neat stuff but it takes lots of effort to keep it nice.

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  18. Your cabin looks so cosy. The fluffy curtains are perfect!

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  19. I hate cutting my flowers and bringing them in the house also. I need you to come and dust and clean my house. I have so many what nots sitting around to dust.
    Love you bunches!

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  20. I have dust, much dust, my windows are open most of the day and on a warm sunny day you can almost seethe stuff coming in and looking for a new home. When I put the dresser in I vowed to put nothing on the top, if it is not in my eye line I forget to clean it. I like a bunch of wild flowers but this year I have had a glut of roses to fill my vases.

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  21. Your home is warm and welcoming and cozy! That is a huge bottle collection you have there! and yes...you can be proud of CLEANING....it's a job well done! Your window sill looks like mine--full of friendly creatures and tid-bits of many things. You have some pebbles there too? I see the picture of the man praying over his meal, my Grandparents had that hanging over their table all my life.

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  22. Looks great! I'm deep cleaning my kitchen, but in bits and bits. I am still canning, so it's slow going.

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  23. Your home looks so warm, homely and inviting. Love those white curtains with the ruffles, they look good against the dark wood. This little cottage could do with a good clean.

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  24. Wow, wow, WOW! Your bottles are absolutely amazing, my friend! I can imagine it took some time to clean them all {{smiles}} I have quite a few tea cups and oh, what a process it is to clean them. DUring the summer it's not too bad, but during the winter with the wood burning stove going well, they need cleaned quite often.

    Love post, dear one. Have a wonderful week! Hugs!

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  25. Does my heart good to see all that dust!! I love your house and your wild flowers and your ruffled curtains. I have blinds at all our windows but sometimes think I would like some curtains. No curtains though and I don't have to wash and iron them! Nancy

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  26. I absolutely love your home. Cozy is my favorite too. :-)
    Love, Carla

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  27. Your home is so cozy and cabin-perfect ! I love it.

    Ha ha, all the dusting and washing up has only made it all the more cozy. I love your porch view and even if they're not currently fashionable, I love your frilly curtains.

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  28. I love the red chair and footstool by the fireplace. And your whole house looks so clean and shiny. I wouldn't want to keep up with dusting all those bottles though!

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  29. I just love your cozy home, Henny! And you know what? Ruffled curtains at a kitchen window? Heaven, right there!!

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  30. Your clean bottles look wonderful. With the first picture I thought well, that's not much to clean and it looked as if they were just on the mantle piece and so were easy to get to. But the second pic showed me just how much work was involved: getting up to them, getting them down, cleaning them and back up . Good for you what a job! And clean windows and screens too! You are making us all feel totally inadequate in the cleaning area. Good heavens I am jealous------all mine are waiting to be tackled and who knows when I will get around to it with fall things, meetings and such, starting up yet again. But they must be cleaned since I didn't get around to doing it this spring. I just hate looking through a dirty window in December when it's too cold to be out messing around with soap and water and a hose.

    I am the same way about flowers especially perennials which just have one bloom stretch, I just hate to cut them and bring them inside to their eventual and early death. But zinnias generally will just put out another crop if you cut flowers to have in the house. In fact there is a variety called Cut and Come Again and for all I know all zinnias may do that as the natural course of things. So you can cut away for bouquet after bouquet all summer long and still have the pretties outside for everyone one to see and enjoy.

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    1. Hey Vic. Thank you. Those bottles are a job to keep clean, and I don't do a good job of it. I hate dirty windows too. You know, it's a job to keep a clean house! I am enjoying the new red canisters. Oh, they are so pretty. Thank you!

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  31. I love to read about cleaning house! I love your curtains. I think your cozy nest is wonderful!

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  32. Nice to know I'm not the only one with dust bunnies that visit too regularly! Can we ban their existence, lol! We live on a gravel road, and I have to dust here daily.. yes, daily. It never ever ever ends. I'm always glad to see the snow, because I get a break from the dust at least. Something good in every change of season :) Fresh clean curtains are always so nice to get done too. I've done a bit of extra fall cleaning myself. Organizing, discarding, sending to the thrift store. It feels great. Give those hungry kitties an extra scoop for me ;) lol! Hugs!

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  33. I appreciate your dusty bottle photo - I decorate with dust also :) Your cabin is so pretty, and yes, a little cleaning does make such a difference. Porches, especially, get SO dirty. Lovely curtains! And the little purple flowers in your fist photo -- whatever they are -- I have lots of them around here too, blooming very nicely!

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