Housework

Almost Passover; with Passover comes spring cleaning.

You've got to be a Jewish woman to know how important that is; the men just suffer quietly these weeks of cleaning and waiting for the crown moment of walking about the house with a candle looking for bread crumbs so they can burn the final leaven. But between then and now, there is a whole lot of thinking going on…

I heard today on the stairs, "the Tora says, 'the clean brush is used', so we have to paint for Pesach (Passover)". That's news to me. What I did notice is the paint smell during this season; we might have to join in that seasonal activity this year…

The wash machines available here take two and a half hour cycles. There is a shorter cycle but the clothes are not as clean at the end of it. Most people don't use dryers but the clothes lines, so the wind and sun add a heavenly smell to dried linen. That too is done in abundant during this season, washing blankets and drapes and sofa covers…

People are doing renovations during this time as well. Downstairs this week, they replaced the bathtub with a shower stall and the whole building was shaking as they hammered down stone walls, gutted the plumbing, lifted floors and took the old broken pieces downstairs.  The most common comment I heard was, "it's their house they can do what they want in it"…

A different season and it had not started yet, not really, we still have Purim to celebrate by March; Passover is in April and we got a whole lot of windows and blinds to clean by then…

50th Day of Thanks -

I enjoy housecleaning and I appreciate a clean home. Thank you God for the season and the anticipated spring activities which are part of it…

Happy to have a vacuum cleaner and clothes lines,

Orith