Friday, March 20, 2015

The Danger of Spring Cleaning Weekly Link Round-Up





Spring cleaning should come with a warning label. Honestly! The whole house could've come down around my ears, but I finally came to my senses and stopped. I was tempted to go one step further and hide in the closet.

Thought you were going to see spring cleaning?
It all began with me innocently thinking that I was going to be scrubbing floors. The rugs had to be rounded up and washed, so I started doing that. One of the rugs was partially under a small bookcase, so I moved the bookcase, picked up the rug... and saw a large amount of crud that had gathered behind the bookcase.

When I plugged in the vacuum cleaner to suck up the crud, I tripped the outlet to the freezer. No matter what I did, I couldn't get the freezer going, so I had to empty its contents into the freezer compartment of the refrigerator. Thus began an unscheduled defrosting of the freezer. Thank goodness, I was planning to do this so there was a lot less food in there!

After rounding up the rest of the rugs, I decided to turn on the fan and sit down for a minute to reorganize my work list. The fan stopped oscillating. A trip out to the laundry room found me almost breaking the light fixture. Let's see... sweeping, dusting... then I dropped the freezer drip pan full of water all over the craft room floor and had to deal with that. At this point I was beginning to lose my resolve, so I went into the family room to sit, knit, watch a few minutes of TV, and contemplate life. In two rows, I dropped four stitches.

I'm now skipping through some things, including a graceful stunt that drew blood. 

I'd decided to put an end to a horrendous evening. Standing at the bathroom sink, gargling away, some mouthwash went down the wrong pipe. I started to choke and spewed mouthwash all over the mirror. That had to be cleaned up.

Yup. Spring cleaning should come with a warning label. Rounding up links is much safer!


 
Books, Movies & Other Interesting Tidbits
  • RIP Terry Pratchett. You were one of a kind. 
  • Don't judge a book by its cover until you see how long it takes to design.
  • Five stories you didn't know about The Sound of Music
  • The fate of footnotes in a digital world.
  • What made me laugh most about The Worst Irish Accents Hollywood Has to Offer were the Liam Neeson Approval Ratings! 
  • Now someone has filed a complaint of elder abuse involving Harper Lee.



Channeling My Inner Indiana Jones
  • Jupiter's moon Ganymede has a salty ocean with more water than Earth.
  • A painting bought for 50¢ at a yard sale may bring thousands at auction.
  • Historians are pondering the future of a Revolutionary War relic
  • An ancient receipt proves Egyptian taxes were worse than yours. 
  • The lost remains of the author of Don Quixote have been found in a convent in Madrid.
  • Researchers have learned that the oldest Roman fort in Italy was used to protect the soldiers from pirates. 



The Happy Wanderer
  • I'm glad I didn't have to narrow a list down to just 30 images of Scotland!
  • 38 (tongue-in-cheek) reasons you should never visit Scotland.
  • If you were beginning to get the idea that I have Scotland on the brain, I'll seal the deal. Here are 19 epic road trips through Scotland. Denis and I have taken some of them, and we're in the midst of planning our next trip to the Highlands.
  • 10 haunting, abandoned lighthouses with strange histories.



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That's all for now. (I wish spring cleaning were finished!) Don't forget to stop by next Friday when I'll be sharing a freshly selected batch of links for your surfing pleasure. 


Have a great weekend and-- Read something fabulous!



4 comments:

  1. Most definitely, Cathy, spring cleaning needs to be approached with lots of caution!; Glad that you're OK and that nothing truly disastrous happened. And now to read about Cervantes' bones....

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    1. Cervantes' Bones....sounds like a good book title to me! :-)

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  2. I haven't even read the links yet, but the spring cleaning got me exhausted.
    Be careful. There is no earthly reason to overdo this at all. Some things
    can keep.

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    1. Well, Kathy, it's a combination of (1) visitors, and (2) it's been "kept" much too long. Things have been going smoother even though I did spray myself in the face with furniture polish yesterday. (My skin has that dewy, youthful glow with just a trace of lemon....)

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