House Work

Weekends are working chore times at the house. Vacuuming, watering plants, garbage and recycling (the haulers come early Monday morning). I've noticed that there is less hair around these days than in the summer when the heat must have accelerated the shedding rates. There is Zelda hair concentrated on one of the living room chairs. Lucky hair on the guest room bed cover. Zoe hair on the bedspread covering Michael's bed downstairs. And a bit of Kooper hair on the couch (Yes! He's spoiled!). There is less hair on the top floor than there used to be. That was Lady's territory. Kooper doesn't go that high. He makes it into the kitchen and dining room on the third floor but no higher.

Not only do the pets shed, but so do the plants that have come inside for the winter. They get much less light than they did on the back patio and are rebelling by turning brown at the edges and dropping leaves - large and small - all over the place. Especially the fern. Those small, brown leaves are everywhere. Most notably between the fern's perch in the guest room and the bathroom where it goes to be watered on a weekly basis. Dropping dozens of small, crunchy, brown leaves in the process.

They get vacuumed up then. Along with the pet sheddings. There is still the random Lady hair to be found among the dust bunnies and other detritus. But not so much anymore.