The ladder to success

You normal heighted people don't know what we shorter people have to go through sometimes! I confess, I ride on an airplane more comfortably than most passengers. But sometimes, I have to get creative.

My windows are dirty. I can't remember the last time I washed the outsides of them. Maybe 5-7 years ago. Maybe even more. Maybe a bit less. But since I can't remember, it has been a long time. I had told myself I was getting new windows, so I kept putting the cleaning off. My weird house is a quad-level home. That means windows on 3 floors and a few basement windows. I cannot get to the highest floor. But they don't get that dirty, not much splashes on them. I get them professionally cleaned every now and then.

The ground floor I can get to. Those aren't too bad if I stand on the stoop to the door and hang one hand on the doorknob; then I can get to most of the glass. I only have to jump a little to get the very tops of some of them. Some require me to use a ladder. That is where the difficulty comes in.

The windows for the laundry room and kitchen are hard for me to get at. There really isn't a place for the ladder on the tiny porch for the laundry room door to outside. I stand on something small on the porch for most of them. To do the inside of the storm door, I have to put a ladder near the porch, put one foot on the step stool and one foot on a step of the ladder and stretch. It is a Kodak moment. The laundry room windows are just plain nasty to clean. They are on an inside corner of the dog run, and nasty stuff gets on the legs of the ladder and my shoes. Ick. The dirt there is very soft and uneven.

I can never forget when I am doing windows that once my mom, who was even shorter than I am, used a folding chair once to do her big windows in the front. From her I learned to stand on anything that works. She fell, broke a few ribs. My brother was home and was able to get help. I live alone. If I fall, no one might find me for a while. Hm, I think I will put the cell phone in my pocket when I do the back windows! Ladder placement out there is dicey too. At least the bee things are all asleep this time of year.

My mom used to do all windows, inside and out, every week, all year around. I don't get it.