The Joy of Cleaning

House cleaning comes with its own amusements. Here are a few.

• While dusting the bathroom, I wiped down the bulbs on the light strip with a damp cloth. Later when I turned on the light, four of them blew out and one of them popped. I guess I'm fortunate they didn't break in my hand.
• I sucked up my little microfiber dust cloth in the vacuum cleaner. I had to open the bag to recover it.
  
• Richard's alarm went off at midnight because I'd unplugged it to dust behind the night stand. John had re-set the clock, but we forgot about the alarm. The most entertaining part was Richard trying to re-set it without waking me up. I had to pretend I was still sleeping, he was trying so hard!