How Many Days Till Spring? and Household Tip #347

We went from these scenes, snapped this morning heading out for a walk:


To this, early in the afternoon. Short-lived but most unwelcome nonetheless. Fortunately, I had just finished storing away the plant pots and the small, rusty BBQ (into the garage) for the winter. And even hauled out one of my shovels to leave beside the back step.


I think I'll have a garden post this week for the Fuzzy Tales blog, since Nicki had to go out in it, of course.

And household tip #347?

It's a good idea to clean out the exterior portion of your dryer vent more than once every 10.5 years. Just sayin'.

And for the record, it never would have occurred to me to check it and clean it, except it was making a whistling noise (I had a load in the dryer) as I was hauling stuff from the back space around to the front and into the garage. So I took a look and saw that it was almost entirely blocked by lint. Yeah, good, Kim, for not cluing in oh, years ago, that it had to be cleaned regularly!


Oh, and the sun's out now, so mercifully the s-n-o-w won't stick. This time.

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Comments

Old Kitty said…
Is that really snow?!?! Oh my goodness!!!! And how lovely the day started too!! I love that pic of the Headless Gardener!! LOL!!

The flowers are beautiful! Aww bet the Dahlias and rudbeckia(?) flowers got such a shock when the snow fell!!

And were the landscape pics from my favourite Lemony Point?!?! Awww!! and the very juvenile looking seagulls after their own treat!!

Yes!!!! Lint in the dryer!! My ex was so obsessed with cleaning such stuff from our dryer so that was how I knew about such stuff!!

:-) Have a warm and restful Halloween! Take care
x
Brrr - you had such a lovely beginning to the day! Sending sun and warmth your way!
Anonymous said…
Ah-ha... the lint... I am OBSESSED about cleaning lint after EVERY wash... Haha...

Love the headless man...
Felted House said…
That reminds me I think I need to take wet fluff out of my washer pipe - I'm sure you're supposed to do that every 6 months and it must be 3 years since I did it. We need appliances that actually tell us when they need us to do maintenance. xx
Pia K said…
exquisite pics! and see, snow has reached you too (happy to say it left here pretty quickly and has, tocuh wood, not been since since). i don't have a dryer, but the lint in the washer (which probably is mostly cat hair, ahem) has to be cleaned now and then. mostly i long for getting a new washing machine (this current one came with the house, 9 years ago, and even if it was pretty new then it certainly isn't now...) and then i'd like to get me a mr lint-cleaner too:) because i hate those silly sisyphean tasks.
Kea said…
Good grief! What washer pipe lint thingie? :-O

I have an old mechanical top-loading machine. Please tell me there's no lint-thingie. I've never notice a washer pipe lint thing!! Acckk!