Public Service Announcement

Just a quick word to the wise, ur, um not so wise, maybe.

If you should decided to shampoo your 10 year old couches, that mind you have NEVER been shampooed before, STOP...DON'T DO IT. What you will find will be more disgusting than you could ever imagine. You will find yourself wondering why you and your family haven't died of the plague or mange or some other kind of creepin' crud (as my mom would say). It would probably better to just buy new couches or at the very least call in professionals for this job.

I only did the tops of the cushions today and I (and my back) am exhausted. I will wait for this side to dry and probably go ahead and endure the disgusting yuckiness that awaits me on the other side another day this week. GAH!! GROSS!!

I was reminded, while shampooing the aforementioned couches, of the Great Syrup Incident of 1999. You see, the now 10 year old , couches had recently been delivered to our new apartment in Edwardsville. They were brand new and beautiful and I loved them. We also had a wonderful, and fairly new, toddler running around the joint at the time. Well one day Momma (that'd be me) went to take a much deserved (I'm sure) shower while said toddler watched Blue's Clues, probably. Momma came back in the room to find that she had failed to lock the pantry cabinet. Guess what the toddler had done?? C'mon guess...That's right, she had opend the pantry cabinet, taken a fairly new bottle of pancake syrup and guess what....Poured the entire contents on not one but BOTH of the new couches. Hhhhhmmmm Momma says to herself, now how does someone get syrup out of upholstery??? Well she sopped and mopped and cleaned it up the best she could but in those days we didn't have a carpet shampooer, nor did we have the money to rent one. So good enough had to be good enough, and by the way, she let the toddler live, so don't worry about her.

All that to say, that it is completely within the realm of possiblity that some of the nastiness coming out of my couch cushions today was, yep, 10 year old syrup. Maybe next time I should let the toddler, er, um, pre-teen help with the shampooing.

So here I am...

I have started blogging. We'll see how this goes, I'm not making any promises. It will likely end up being all random thoughts about random things like baking, gardening, family life and whatever else might pop in my head.