Check Under Your Refrigerator

Very busy time of year for me with gardening.  I try my best to always do Nine Habits Each Day Every Day in order to keep my home functioning.  Yard work, flower and vegetable gardens take work.  Lawn needs to be mowed, flowers deadheaded, vegetable ready to pick.

I do my Weekly Mambo that has seven tasks.  One of the tasks is dusting.  I try to do my best during gardening season but it is a fact that dirt is going to come into the house.  

When I dusted my desk using polish three days ago, I didn’t expect to see the amount of dust on it.  I was busy doing a refrigerator cha cha cha which is throwing away science projects, wiping down, taking stock what is in there and making room for vegetables from my garden. My desk is in the kitchen.

I noticed dust in my fridge too!  I realize the door I use the most in the summer is the dining room door because it leads out to the garden.  The dining room is just off the kitchen.  I was wiping down the bottom freezer seal because it seemed to have condensation. 

We know how some of us are.  As long as I am down on the floor I might as well take the grate/grill off to wipe down.  Then I thought maybe I need to look under there too while I am at it.  I was finding myself feeling like I was getting sidetracked.  My lawn was calling me to mow it.  I got a flashlight to look under there and it was bad! In the ‘old days’ I call them I would have taken the back of the fridge off and used a vacuum and necessary tool to detail clean.  Then the lawn wouldn’t get mowed because this type of detail cleaning takes at least an hour by the time you get your supplies needed to do the job.  Instead, I have an appliance brush that can be slide under the fridge to grab the dust and dust bunnies.  I got lots out using this tool.  I know more is under there.  I will make a note in my progressive task list so I can get it out of my head and on to paper for a project I can do when I have more time.  That way it doesn’t swim around in my head clogging up my mind for other things that are on the daily list like Nine Habits Each Day Every Day and Mowing that I wrote down on my my Progressive Task List yesterday.  

Yes, I am feeling really good about myself that I dealt with it and gave myself 15 minutes to do my best instead of ignoring all the other habits one must do to keep a home functioning each day and instead hyper focusing on the refrigerator trying to make it look brand new again.  I am sorry but my fridge will never look brand new again.  It is ten years old and has built some character. Sometimes this is what gets us into trouble the most is our high expectations.  I learned that lesson yesterday and it prepared me for today!
Dance Till You FLY! mw
Marilyn

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