My house is finally all cleaned and decluttered. This happened last week. Last week, Mama hired a couple to deep clean, clean, and declutter the whole house. They were the janitor of the First Baptist church and his wife. Their names are Joe and Mary Agnes. Joe also contacted someone to come and mow the grass. He came on last Thursday (grass cutter) with his lawn mower and weed eater and he did an excellent job. He did much better than the man I currently have employed. On last Friday, Joe and Mary Agnes came along with another man and they all worked all fron 8:00 a.m to 2:00 p.m. except for a short time (30 minutes) beginning at about 9:20 a.m. to about 10:10 a.m. Then they worked until lunch and Mary Agnes went for their lunch and after they ate, they started back to work. They worked until 2:00 p.m. At about 11:30 a.m. or 12:00 noon another man joined them and worked until 2:00 p.m. This was when they all left.
They returned the following morning at 8:10 and I went to the door to let them in. When I opened the door, I saw Mary Agnes, Joe, another man from the day before, and a third man who I had not seen before. Later there was another woman who came and worked also. At one time I counted seven people in the house I believe. There was Joe, Mary Agnes, the other woman whose name was Mary also, and there were three other men so that would be a total of six.
They did excellent work. They even cleaned the stains from the floor. Mary Agnes and Mary worked in the kitchen a lot as did Joe on Friday. Mary Agnes and Mary did the dishes, cleaned the oven, wiped off the counters. cleaned out the refrigerator, did the laundry, and they cleaned out the kitchen drawers. However, when they put the dishes away, somebody put them on shelves that were too high for me to reach easily Friday so on Friday night, I moved the things from the high shelves down to the counter and I was going to put them up late Saturday. I had thought except for the laundry they were through in the kitchen. They were not through and somehow the things found their way back to those shelves and also to the shelves above those. When they were beginning to gather their things, I did peek in the kitchen cabinet just to see if the things were on a high shelf and they were. I told Joe that they should be moved down to the first shelf and they were.
There were also things that the housecleaners did not know where they belonged and they put these things in places that they thought the things would belong. I am locating some of these things as I go.
I have completely reorganized the kitchen except for some few new things that I have not found a home for yet, but there are going to be several things like these so I have decided to leave them until I finish reorganizing each room. By then I can pick new homes for these things.
I am very happy with the quality of the work Joe, Mary Agnes, and the others did.
