Plans for today (2019-2022)
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I’m planning on a whole lot of nothing today, but soon, I’m going to have to think about getting the window screens put away, getting the patio furniture put away, and otherwise prepping for Winter.
Tomorrow is a federal/bank holiday (Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples Day, depending on where you live), so that’s a day off coming up, and I’ve got errands to run in the city Tuesday, so I’m taking that day off as well.
Tomorrow is a federal/bank holiday (Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples Day, depending on where you live), so that’s a day off coming up, and I’ve got errands to run in the city Tuesday, so I’m taking that day off as well.
Yeah, me too now that I calmed down and realized it's Sunday.
Do people take screens down these days? We did it when I was a kid, but only to put up the storm windows.
Oh, thanks for the bank holiday. Now I have to wait another day to make a scene taking my money out of my local PNC bank.
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Yeah, we do. I take them down and wash the windows, then I wash the windows again in Spring and out them back up.
What are they? I obviously don't have any...
Fine-mesh screens, fitted to a window, standard equipment here, not so much in your country (one of the few things that aggravated me when we lived there).
The idea is with the screens in, you can open the windows to let in breeze, while still keep the bugs (and birds!) out.
OK. I suppose a good idea if you get lots of bugs. I don't seem to get many here. The main thing I open in summer is French windows (patio doors) and I can't imagine having screens on those...
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We used to have them when we lived on the Surrey/Hampshire border on marshland that was an open access military playground. And just about every house I lived in on the Scottish Highlands... They very on permanently, but all of them had them on the inside, so they were easily removed (usually attached via a separate frame or by Velcro).
The ones on the windows at the house we're in now stay on year round. It makes cleaning the windows (they are on the outside) a bit of a pain mind you but it does stop lots of things coming in year round. The doors have a second fly screen door on as well, for keeping bugs and snakes out of your home.
I've been considering a spray on solution that is applied with the hosepipe that washes and cleans in one go. I've no idea how effective it environmentally friendly it is but it has to be easier than the flyscreens we have here. Every single window has them and each has to go back to it's original location, and most will only fit in 1 direction and there's no turning them around because they were all handmade, so the 'clips' are all in very slightly different places. And none of the windows except on the veranda can be reached without step ladders...
We don't have French doors here, but we do have sort of a half-French door (one side is fixed, one side opens), and we most certainly have a sliding screen for that.
When we lived there, we'd get those <bleeping> black flies in the house if we left the windows open at the wrong time, and we did get a bird in the house a couple of times (which my grandmother says means someone is going to die soon!).
Our windows tilt in for easy cleaning...but I still ain't cleaning the outer side of them more than twice a year!
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My windows have been done once outside by me. We've lived in this house over 4 years now. It was hard work what with all of the flyscreen meshes having to be kept exactly how they came off the windows (correct front/back as well as orientation, and the left hand one on the left, the right on the right. ) I recall it taking an entire morning (?) to get it all done. Right now I couldn't even if I wanted to because the ground is too soft for the ladders.We don't have French doors here, but we do have sort of a half-French door (one side is fixed, one side opens), and we most certainly have a sliding screen for that.
When we lived there, we'd get those <bleeping> black flies in the house if we left the windows open at the wrong time, and we did get a bird in the house a couple of times (which my grandmother says means someone is going to die soon!).
Our windows tilt in for easy cleaning...but I still ain't cleaning the outer side of them more than twice a year!
Inside gets done most days in winter by the amount of condensation that's built up overnight. We have a window vacuum to suck up that condensation.
Thankfully, I have a very nice window cleaner for the front of the house. He charges only £7 which has to be a bargain in anyone's book.
Inside, I've done once in a blue moon. Hmm... maybe it should be in my plans for the day (to get back on topic). But somehow, there always seem to be more important things.
Plans for tomorrow. Make lunch for my daughter (prawn dish) and then she helps me de-clutter. Its knitting wool de-cluttering tomorrow. How on earth am I supposed to decide which wool to keep and which to donate?
Inside, I've done once in a blue moon. Hmm... maybe it should be in my plans for the day (to get back on topic). But somehow, there always seem to be more important things.
Plans for tomorrow. Make lunch for my daughter (prawn dish) and then she helps me de-clutter. Its knitting wool de-cluttering tomorrow. How on earth am I supposed to decide which wool to keep and which to donate?
I´d imagine mosquitoes, more than anything. We do/did the same in Caracas.
Chuck em all out. Anything you haven´t used for the past 6 months is no good.
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Did you ever get a bird in your house? We had one in the office when I worked for the car magazine. It took us all afternoon to get the stupid thing to fly out the same door it flew in through.
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I need to get my windows cleaned. I don't have a ladder tall enough to reach the second floor windows, and don't plan to buy one. I had a rather "negative" experience on a tall ladder at my dad's house about 15 years ago. It was one of those, "This is going to hurt" moments. And yes, it hurt.
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