Outside Cleanup
S heila and I spent a good part of this past holiday weekend cleaning up the outside of the house. The rain finally stopped for Labor Day weekend after an entire summer of daily rain and dark overcast skies. We spent almost the entire summer indoors sheltered from the terrible weather. This past weekend, we washed all the windows, inside and out. We cleaned screens. I even cleaned mold, algae and mildew off one side of our house including the oil tank and gas tank. The amount of moisture we've had this summer seemed to cover everything in filthy growth, some black, some green, some very crusty. I also did some landscaping and Sheila did some gardening attending to our remaining flowers. The gardens are still looking pretty good for this time of year even though they got very little sun through the summer! While I was cleaning windows on the back side of the house, I noticed that our neighbor's lawn is completely covered in leaves already! Even though the temperature and