Maple Grove Farm

Home Cleaning and General Updates

We've been busy around here cleaning today.  We did our major monthly cleaning.  First weekend we do grocery shopping, second weekend major house cleaning, third weekend decluttering and closet cleaning, and fourth weekend baking and kitchen projects.  After our major cleaning we did a few garden projects including planting some broccoli and cabbage and mulching the berries we planted last weekend.

It is such a refreshing feeling to have a clean house.  I did Flylady for awhile but never could get the hange of zone cleaning, but the home blessing concept has stuck.  Every day the kids do chores based on a district.  We have 3 districts - kitchen, upstairs, and downstairs.  They have a list of 15 items to do in their district and it takes them about 1 hour.  This is the maintenance part of our plan. 

Once a week we do a home blessing that includes vacuuming, dusting, watering plants, mopping floors that don't get mopped daily (the kitchen gets mopped daily), bathrooms, and tidying.  It takes us about 1 hour.  Then we spend about 6 hours once a month cleaning all the bathrooms very well, moving furniture and sweeping/vacuuming under them, scrubbing floors on our hands and knees, cleaning every room, detail vacuuming every room, washing bedding, etc. 

Our house always is tidy and surface clean.  I can't say you can eat off the floor all the time, but we are a country family of nine so you can't expect that!

DH got a couple of pheasants this weekend so I am trying to figure out how to cook them.  I have not cooked pheasant before, but I hear they are tasty.  We also finished up a couple of projects including a chicken plucker that goes on the end of the drill and a cheese press.  Both we are hoping to put to good use soon.  I hope your homesteading weekend has been enjoyable.

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10:44, 2008-Mar-9 .. Posted by Alaina

A chicken plucker on the end of a drill? That sounds WRONG! LOL I'm not sure I want to know how that one turns out! LOLOLOL!!!!