As I’ve told you in the past we have been in this house for over ten years.

When we first bought the house one of the things that I really wanted to “fix” right away was the windows.

Storm windows were added to the house several years prior to our purchase. The problem was the original windows were very dirty and were not cleaned before the storm windows were installed.

When we bought the house I asked my Mom about removing the storm windows so I could clean.

“Yeah,” she said. “The installers said they were easy to remove, I just don’t know how to do it.”

So, for the next decade I asked everyone I encountered if they knew how to remove the windows. No one had a clue. A few people looked at them but no one could help. I fidgetedwith them on and off for years. I looked on the Internet, I asked complete strangers. All the while Dear Don ignored the windows, the dirt and me.

That is until I got the bright idea to ask my Uncle Morris. Uncle Morris is like my Daddy in the sense he knows how to do most anything. So when he called a few days ago Don asked him if he could ride out sometime and take a look.

Uncle Morris and Aunt Jane called Friday morning to say they were on their way. I put on coffee and waited. Not fifteen minutes after they arrived he had the first window out. Things come a little easier to those who know what they’re doing. (Thanks, Uncle Morris!)

So Dear Don and I spent the weekend cleaning windows. We managed to get three done. We only have seventeen more to go. I speculate that Dear Don did not have these windows on his priority list. But we have to finish now. The three clean windows make the seventeen dirty ones look even worse.

The job is labor intensive and time consuming. It takes two people to do it, so with seventeen windows left and supposing we get two done each Saturday it will take until the middle of July at the very least to finish the task.

But if it rains or it’s too hot and humid or Dear Don’s too tired or we just don’t want to clean windows every Saturday through eternity it could take a wee bit longer.

Of course by the time we get around to completing the job no doubt we will need to start over again.

Be careful what you wish for.

You get the picture.

(Contact Sherry at swhcsc@wildblue.net)