Ever tried sweeping a pebbled porch?
Not so much fun, is it? You sweep and sweep and sweep and sweep and move the grass and dirt a measly inch and a half across the pebbly way.
Well… I’ve got my porches number and I’m sweeping it NO MORE!
That’s right… there are NO brooms involved.
I finally realized that using a broom was like getting on a broken down ferris wheel that gets stuck in the on position. Round and round and round you go, and you never get anywhere!
When that realization hit, I ran to the garage and grabbed my little blower.
Not much to speak of but it does a GREAT job.
I start in the back corner and blow it out first.
And I blow off the little critters that have found homes in the siding while I’m at it.
Methinks I need to blow off the blower, too, but oh wellz.
When I’m finished in that corner, I blow everything directly across the porch to the other side.
Then I get behind the dirt and blow it out to the yard where it belongs.
I do make a couple of passes and get up under the furniture to make sure it’s very, very clean.
And it goes from this nastiness…
To this:
So that’s how you sweep your porch without sweeping your porch… In less than half the time it takes to sweep using a broom.
It’s not being lazy… it’s being smart.
And I’m thirty kinds of blue raspberries over being smart.
Smarter not harder, right?
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