So I bet you never knew that a power washer could help you savor your space more. Well, I knew when we bought this place that we would become great friends.  Seth and the neighbors power washer bonded over nearly 8 hours of power washing this week! No joke. He shared it with me a couple of times for a very few minutes…the guy loved it! I have been itching to get the power washing going since we moved in but we just did not have the time. The front of the house is set back enough and it didn’t look as bad as the back so we knew the project could wait a bit but still we were antsy to be done on the inside work so we could get going on the yuck!

To be honest it is maddening to me how someone could live in the space and watch the house change colors before their eyes and not take the time to do minimal maintenance. But then, oh yea, I guess that’s a bit how it is with my heart. I get really comfortable with the build up of junk and think it won’t affect anyone else. Turns out it does. One attitude, piled on one hurt feeling, piled on exhaustion, added to little time to slow down and pray, throw in there a million other little teeny tiny things and before you know it you’ve got some big clean up work to do. It’s been high time for some power washing on the heart and house levels lately! Disclaimer: much to my disappointment the power washer did not turn our cement slabs into a beautiful stone patio….didn’t want any of you non power washers to get high hopes!  But everything does looks much more sparkly clean…and sometime that is enough to satisfy a little perfectionism!

  before

after…doesn’t do it justice with this bad lighting but you get the idea!

before and after

best helper award goes to the O man!

before

after

who knew that a love note written in green algae could be so darn sweet!

Happy Saturday! Pull out those power washers! It’s refreshing!