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Life Lessons in Spring Cleaning

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            My family and I spent our Memorial Day weekend doing some intensive spring cleaning to the rental we’ve been living.  Our back screened in porch has been a dirty mess.  I’m not sure when we moved in this house in November if it had been necessarily clean, but add my family, Mojo (my dog), the sand of Florida; the porch was in desperate need of a good dose of some elbow grease.             I spent most of my morning sweeping, hosing down, and mopping the floor with a Pine-Sol and bleach concoction.  Whenever I clean like that I start thinking of my grandmother.  My grandmother had a special gift when it came to cleaning.  Sure some may laugh about that being a gifting but it really is one, and she really had it.  That woman could wash or bleach anything and get it spic and span.  In my own internal dialogue, I started to quest...