Windows

Ever wonder why houses have windows? I know... I know... there are lots of good reasons to have windows. Maybe the most obvious is that windows fill up the hole that would be in the wall is we didn't have windows. OK... maybe that's too obvious. Let's see... windows let in light, keep heat in or out, slide to let a breeze in, lock for safety, have screens to keep the bugs at bay, have blinds or curtains or drapes for privacy, give us a great view of the hills... and collect a lot of dust and dirt that diminishes the view.

I think windows are a good idea, and we have some that are pretty big, so we may collect more than our share of dirt. Last year we replaced the original ones (with an R-value equal to a sheet of newspaper) with some really nice double paned ones that do a much better job of most of the stuff I listed above. However, they still collect dust and dirt.

Soooo... today Virginia and I washed windows... upstairs and down. Not that bad a job if you do it together. Most of our windows are too big to be the tilt-in-easy-to-clean kind... they slide instead. Actually, the bathroom windows are the only ones that tilt in.

I climbed out on the roof to wash the outsides of the front upstairs windows, but our bedroom windows are strictly two story, so I washed them with a product Windex makes that hooks on the end of the hose... worked pretty well. Inside and downstairs outside were simpler.

So, now that view of the hills is a bit more pristine than it was this morning... and our clean windows still let in the breeze when we open them.