Well, after lunch, I took off five pieces of screens from the windows upstairs and started to soap and hose down the items in the backyard. At around 7:00pm, I finished taking my shower after trimming my nails and cuticles quickly and after finishing our cleaning about a half hour earlier.
“I thought we are done [cleaning]!” ~Exclaimed Paw as he finished washing his hands in the kitchen sink and reluctantly donned his working clothes of plaid shirt, dark blue pants and military cap.
Maw was already cooking dinner of coconut stew while I helped Paw “load” the ladder for us to climb onto the roof. Maw climbed too but we refused the old hag to join us. Instead she “helped” by scraping off bits and pieces of dormant mold in between the asphalt roof shingles.
That was our goal: to scrap off as much green mold and lichen of yellow, pink, and white colors. We did so on the “north” facing shingles as drivers of various sorts (and the police driving around as “citizen” vehicles).
Paw used the dust pan and “walis” to broom the caterpillar-shaped fur balls and gather them into a plastic bag. The remaining loose ones were hosed down by moi. I helped clean out Paw’s gutter of eucalyptus leaves and flushed the sediments with the garden. It was a task he used to do but now I’ve made my services available to the old timer.
Maw then helped flush down the fur balls down out driveway, off the sidewalk and into the gutter headed straight for the Bay Area. She wouldn’t stop narrating while working. I hushed her from the second story. She just doesn’t get it!
Then I replaced the screens after wiping down two front facing windows. I had to hose down the two back facing windows prior to the screen. With Maw’s maroon-colored aluminum cane, I wrapped a terry cloth around the stick and secured it with a nice rubber band. That extension served as a wiper for the hard-to-reach section of the windows.
I didn’t feel much pain during the activities, except last night’s stiff left should and painful back and today’s soreness in the thigh muscles from stooping while working on the roof. Of course, I kept flicking off curious on-lookers with my hidden middle finger while pretending not to notice. Bahahaha!
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