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I’ve just scoured the kitchen floor, and I’m about to do the dishes (after lunch – why have left over dishes????) and that’s it for cleaning, for the day. When I say scouring, that’s what I mean – pail, brush, rag, hot water and spray bottle. I learned awhile ago from some other cleaning guru that floors can be cleaned better and sometimes faster that way than with a mop. I know that the floor is clean now because the water in the bucket stayed clean after the last go around with the sponge mop.

I’m mortified by how dirty the floor was. Maybe it’s time to extend my clean sink to the floor?

One of the problems is that the floor looked dirty when it was new — just an ugly design and color. Who decided that a yellow grey background with specks and a pitted surface would be a great floor covering design? But still.

I’m such a bad housekeeper.

I worked a little while on my nine patches last night. I think I’ll take a break from grant quilts for day or so and see if I can move that quilt along a bit. I’d like to have something to show for the challenge, even if it’s only the nine patches pinned to the black fabric.

It’s interesting to have these piles of five inch strips and just pull three here and three there. I sew two together, sew two together and set the last two in a pile. After awhile, I pull my chain out of the machine, flip the pile of strips over and sew them onto the chain. Keeps them in the correct order.

Of course, I probably need to stop and iron seams and cut up the pieces sooner or later. Perhaps I should take up painting instead.