Housecleaning… How To?

It’s a bluebird day and I’m feeling in the outdoorsy mood again. I’m also feeling like cleaning again… and believe me folks, that doesn’t come upon me too often!

Pardon my ignorance … but I’ve never lived in a place long enough to run into this dilemma:

How do you clean your HOUSE?

No folks … I don’t mean the IN side of the house! I’m talking about the OUT side! I’ve been here about 3 years and up until last year, I didn’t have to do a thing to the outside of the house. Now I’m trying to keep up both the inside and outside of the house.

Looking at it from my perspective, I’d say first off, “just paint the darn thing and get on with life.” I figure it’d cost $800 or more in supplies to paint the house… so therefore I’m looking into a cost effective alternative.

I thought about using my broom on the little grooves in the outer panelling of my house, but that seems like WAY TOO MUCH WORK!!!! Of course, if the broom was used regularly in the first place, I suppose it wouldn’t be any more work than its use on the inside of the house.

I don’t know about you, but the broom (or mop) works quite well to get at those pesky cobwebs way high up in the corners of your rooms.

I’m not sure exactly what is cluttering up the grooves on the outer paneling of this house. The house is NOT made of block or stucco construction, and I’m afraid to get too close in case the “stuff” is something creepy or worse yet … UNidentifiable! Arizona is definitely the ideal location for creepy things showing up in strange places. Or is it just at my house, I wonder?????

My other thought was to hose the house down like I do with my windows, but I’m not too sure how airtight the place is. Although I haven’t noticed any leaks when it rains, it only rains on top of the house, not all over the sides … so I’m a little hesitant to try the hose method … especially with my power sprayer nozzle. My luck, I’d blow the house away!

Then I’d have nothing in common with you folks and then what would I write about in my spare time?