Vacuum @ MindSay

I want these Logitech Speakers They are bound to be better than the tiny little ones I have now. And I want this Eureka Upright Vacuum but I would settle for this Hoover Upright Vacuum because it's cheaper. Both have hepa filters and from the reviews are good ones. And supposedly do not spit the dust back in your face. That's part of the problem with the old one I have now. Actually the cheaper one is also not as heavy. So another plus for it. I really want one with a hepa filter though. That is supposed to be really helpful for folks with allergies.

Hey all...

 

They say that you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube...

and you can't fix your wireless router power chord when you suck it up in the vacuum cleaner.

 

Well, I just made that last part up.  Never-the-less, I can't get my internet connection up and running on my laptop at home because some how the wireless router's power chord jumped up from behind the desk and landed right in front of the vacuum cleaner.  That sucks.  My poor router chord...it's just was not a pretty sight.  So, lucky for me I am working in the office today and I finally get a chance to catch up on the wonderful reading material here at Mindsay and perhaps today I will get lucky and make it to the high tech gizmo store to pick up a new router (or power chord, if I'm lucky) and get it up soon.  I hope, I hope, I hope.

 

Until then...have a super spank'n good day!

 

   There are terrible creatures that live in the same area as us. They are called "Yellow Jacket Wasps". I had a little run in with some of them a few weeks ago. I was mowing the back yard in a area that I hadn't been mowing, and it was pretty much overgrown when I felt a searing pain just under my left eye. As I smacked myself in the face, I realized it was a Yellow Jacket Wasp viciously stinging away, and several of his buddies were close behind him. I floored the gas feed and shot across the yard with all of the speed that the John Deere mower with a V-Twin motor would give me. I avoided any more stings but my eye sure was smarting. So I put some ice on it and moved to another part of the yard to work.

   We have some young grapevines which we haven't been trimming around, so I started mowing close to them, occasionally stopping to tie the new growth up to a stake. As I started working on the 4th vine I heard buzzing. As I ran backward I saw the little varmints swarming out of the tall grass around the vine. I had to do something this time because kids sometimes play in this area of the yard and some of them could be allergic to stings. I couldn't see the hole in the ground where the nest would be and there were way too many wasps swarming around to try to mow any closer the vine. I didn't want to spray the whole area with poison so I got the shop vac out and put some in the bottom of it then gently eased the hose  over to the area of the swarm.

 

   Pretty soon, most of the little evil varmints that were flying around had flown over to attack the noisy end of the open hose and were quickly sucked inside. Then I was able to mow closer to the vine and found the hole. Once I found it I just put the hose near it to catch them as they came out.

   Now I am not telling anybody to do this, so if you try it and get stung, don't blame me. I was filming them when one sneaked up behind me and got me in the back. The video below shows how I react when I am filming and get stung in the back.

 

 

I received a query from revcathian about whether my floor was painted yet.

The answer, my dear woman, is a resounding NO.

I am learning that there are many steps just to get to the cement floor!

1)  Clear books and other small items from the room.
2)  Move furniture from the room.
    a) moving furniture in other rooms to accommodate  
    b) redistributing all stray Legos, action figures, writing utencils and accumulated "stuff unders" that were stuffed under the furniture since the last time we moved things.
3) Vacuum.
4) Cut and remove sections of carpet.
    a) While keeping small children out of the room  
    b) While removing carpet tack strips (which is why kids must be out of the room)
5) Remove carpet padding. Which has been in this house since 1979, as it is apparently the original carpet.
    a) admire the footprint from the original contractor. he wore Converse All-stars Hi-tops. We can tell by the painted impression left on the concrete. 
6) Scrape off old glue and almost 30 years of accumulated dust that has worked its way through carpet, pad, to the floor.
7)  Shudder with the heebie-jeebies
8) Vacuum! Again!
9) SCRUB floor with a bleach solution.
10) Shudder with the heebie-jeebies. Again!
11) Scrub yourself.  Vigorously.  (If you have 30-yr-old-carpet-germ issues, use Clorox wipes.  Ignore their instructions not to use on the skin. What do they know about 30-yr-old carpet?)
12) Swear to self and spouse that you'll never buy an older house again. Yes, 1979 is an old house when the carpet is still the ORIGINAL CARPET. 
13) Think seriously about eschewing real furniture and just "going with camping gear" in the living room. 
14)  Patch all nail holes in the concrete.
15) Give thanks that it takes 24 hours for the patching concrete to set.

Thus Ends Day One of Painting the Living Room Floor.