Wednesday, June 13, 2012

I Can Never Say My Job's Finished

In the past two weeks especially, I have noticed that in early afternoon at the latest I am really feeling tired. This past week the weather has turned cold with the start of the rainy season. so add to the tiredness some aching joints in reaction to the weather.  Today I realized that perhaps part of the tiredness is due to the Spring Cleaning/Change Over that step by step  has been accomplished in about that same amount of time.  I had a famous two days at the beginning of the month where all of the Guest Home beds and a few additional futons were full.  I had gotten the main building changed over before that and after I did the annex.

The Change Over involved putting the winter duvets (actually called kakibuton here) into Space Bags after airing them and getting out the summer weight ones I put away last autumn. Also every bed here in the winter has an electric blanket under the bottom sheet. These are thankfully washable and so were collected washed and hung to dry.  They are the last thing that needs to be put away in some of the rooms. The mattresses for the most part were turned and the mattress pads were laundered as well. While I was at it I moved all the furniture in the rooms and vacuumed and dusted behind everything. 

Cleaning a couple of recently vacated rooms today I realized that my enemy, the ubiquitous mildew has been lurking undetected under the lids and behind the toilets in the unit baths! Yuck, I hate mildew! There's a handy spray cleaner here that is called Kabi Kira. (Kabi is the Japanese word for mildew, kira is Japanese for, well...killer.) So, something else to tend to in this round of cleaning.

3 comments:

Alison Orr said...

No wonder you're tired! Makes me tired even thinking about all that!'

Nancy J said...

spring cleaning is a ritual observed in so many homes, and for you, so much more with many beds.here, I have winter duvets, electric blanket(BLISS), and firewood in the woodbox.No wonder the cats prefer the place in front of the fire for warmth and comfort.Rest easy, the hardest part of your work is done. Cheers from Jean.

Julie Fukuda said...

You are way ahead of me. I am tempted to just go off to camp and let Paul and Peter handle those things. Of course, I know thwy would still be waiting upon my return.