Saturday October Challenge Update

Knowing I had company coming on Saturday for dinner, I've been scurrying around the house this week trying to catch up on some of the neglected housework.  I guess its developed into fall house cleaning.  So, in addition to what I'd accomplished earlier, today I:

• Dusted, vacuumed, washed the windows, and rehung the clean curtains in the living room.
• Replaced some dead-looking plants in the living room.
• Touched up the top of an end table with some scratch cover liquid to make it look better (it needs to be refinished, but that's another project).
• Sorted out a pile of papers and stuff that's been sitting on the dining room to kitchen pass through.
• Washed out several pairs of salt/pepper shakers so they can be refilled.
• Collected and recycled the stacks of newspapers sitting around.
• Cleaned off my kitchen counters, did all the dishes, and bleached the sinks.
• Ran the dishwasher.
• Folded all the laundry already washed in the laundry room.
• Ran three loads of laundry.
• Vacuumed the entry, bathroom and dining room floors.
• Mopped all the floors - entry, bathroom, kitchen and dining room.
• Scrubbed the shower and tub and hung a clean shower curtain liner.
• Cleaned the bathroom and the bathroom counter and hung fresh towels.
• Prepared 10 lbs. of pork ribs and put them in the oven with my mom's special sauce, along with 7 scrubbed baking potatoes.  Prepared the broccoli.
• Dusted the dining room.
• Put an extra leaf in the table and set it.

Ta Da!  Cleaning finished.

Dinner turned out okay (I would have preferred the ribs to be done a little more).  Our company was fun.  We all talked and had a nice time.  

My house should stay clean for Craft Night on Friday night.  Now to check and see what zone Flylady is doing next week.  Now that I'm kind of caught up, it should be easier to stay caught up using the zones.

~Jane