I have yet to post pictures of our cute little house- much to the dismay of many, but don't fear my friends it will all happen in due time. Our cute little house is perfect for Dale and I along with our 4 legged companions- primarily because there is not a single piece of carpet in the entire place- truly nothing, haven't even bought a rug because in my mind that is just baby carpet and that would mute the point of no carpet- but I digress. We did invest in slippers though- please bring your own when you come to visit us- we don't share these very well.
As you have seen the pictures and read my words, our puppies (not really puppies anymore 7 1/2 and 2) rule our life and our world. Tuke has beautiful thick long black hair and Foster has very soft short hair and I myself have medium length bleach blonde with #6 brown highlights and Dale uses a number 2 on the sides with a high and tight cut - we all have very different hair.
Anyways, we all shed, the dogs more than us and most of this said hair lands on the floor. I truly love my dogs but if their was a magic pill that would cause them to stop shedding I would probably pay whatever outrageous cost they demanded and Pray that it worked. Now- sweeping with a broom and dust pan is useless. I think of sweeping as rearranging the hair particles throughout the house with a minimal hint of actually doing any good. A standard vacuum with a roller brush on the bottom does pretty good- in the beginning. Anyone that has long hair, lives with someone with long hair, has hairy pets or married to Chewbacca (I don't judge) for that matter is aware that the roller brush on the bottom becomes clogged and doesn't spin very easily anymore. I know we have all been there- stopped the vacuum and let out a string of expletives because the fricking thing stopped sucking up the hair on the floor. When you lay it on it's side to investigate the cause, a gasp escapes from your mouth as you see the Wookie that has taken up residence on your spinning suckie upie part. Then the fun begins- getting some tool to try and cut the hair off the roller parts but trying to find something that will never come close to anything that may possibly touch food or come close to being in the kitchen (I find a gerber tool always worked best) and if your like me- trying not to gag. It is usually at this point that I start yelling things like "Everyone is getting a Bic for Christmas ", "Maybe Sinead had the right idea all along", "Really!? Really!!? How is it possible to have this much hair on this freaking thing" and "maybe the bald cat from Austin Powers wasn't thaaaat ugly". See, your smiling, you have totally been there or witnessed this before :)So let me tell you 'bout my fabulous floor cleaning machine- you just want to know right?! It's called a Steam Shark and it is my favoritist floor care thing ever! It has no roller suckie up hair collector tool- just big hole that sucks everything up. I should point out this only works for non-carpeted areas, i.e. my house. Oh yeah, and this also washes the floor too, nice hot and steamy. No more stinky, nasty, mop to wring out and slosh all over the floor and have to hurry because the water is going to get cold (admit it- you still do this). Nope, add the water and push around like you are vacuuming and you have beautifully steam cleaned floors:) Before you all go rush out to local big box store and buy your very own awesome vacuum, I will share one secret...............buy on Amazon.com its cheaper, no sales tax and mine came with bonus cleaning pads.
So you ask- what does this have to do with Alaska? Well, I would have never had a reason for this magnificent piece of machinery while living in Utah. So, Alaska, I Thank You for this opportunity to enhance my vacuuming experience.
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