Deep Cleaning

Cleaning is really not my favorite thing to do.    I tend to live by the principle that if one maintains their environment in a neat and orderly fashion every day,  then doing actual cleaning can be postponed for a long long time!

I am getting ready for visitors this weekend----daughter and son-in-law, so some cleaning is definitely in order.

 What I don't do all that often is dust the furniture.  I suppose other more dedicated  house-cleaners have a regular schedule for that,  but for me it is "when I happen to notice."

There are a couple of similar things that get postponed frequently also, such as dusting the baseboards.   I have noticed that whatever requires one to bend over or get on their hands and knees, or contort one's body--- definitely gets more difficult with age!

Part of the getting ready for guests involves 'opening up' the guest wing of the house.  We do not generally heat the guest bedroom.  It is on a far corner away from where we generally spend our time, and it is also the coldest part of the house.   It takes most of the day to get it up to an appropriate level of heat.

The bed has a thick memory foam pad.  I have noticed that when the room is quite cold,  the memory foam turns as hard as a board!   If for no other reason,  warming the room gives the pad back its memory! It is rather comical actually.   Once or twice,  I have slept in that cold room with the cold memory foam pad.   It warms up where I am, and I sink down into that spot,  but the rest of the foam pad stays as hard as a board. When I had to get up in the middle of the night, I was unable to propel myself out of that hole!

I definitely would not want guests to fall into a hole in the bed and not be able to get back out!