Cleaning Up Six Months Worth of Dirt

While Steve spent the week days in Kasama, the kids and I cleaned up six months worth of dirt.  While cleaning I did relive the whole accident, I worried, and then I prayed – giving it over to God.  He knows best what is going on and what it is we need.  Only He can give us the peace we need.

Termite Dirt – they were busy little fellows.

We swept the floors everyday.   We washed the walls.  We swept the floors again.  We wet mopped the floors.  I put wax on the floors and the kids took turns polishing the floors.  We unrolled the carpets and vacuumed them.  Then we put them back in place. 

Everything was for the most part packed up and in Heather’s room.  I have never seen termite activity in that room, so that is where we had put our stuff. 

We moved the furniture back into place.  I put the recliners on the porch and let Lane and Seth just beat them until the dust didn’t fly as much as it did when they started beating them.  Then we unpacked boxes.

We did all this in one week, as we needed to get right back into the swing  of school.  We had already taken enough time off.

That second week I had our yard worker come inside and help.  He washed the screens, bars, and windows.  He also finished waxing floors for us.  Our arms were just plumb worn out!  There is only so much polishing of floors our American arms can take.

The kitchen sink drain didn’t work very well.  Here is why – the termites had filled up the drain box with mud!!!  I put Tobias on that job.  He had a bit of digging to do and hauling of mud away.

Now all seems to be back to normal.  We did a lot of spraying for the termites and now the dry season is here.  So they have gone away and have given us a break.