Note #15 post 656 - "Do you do spring cleaning? And if you do, how crazy do you get with it?"
"Spring cleaning" consists of things like washing the blankets, coats and dog beds before putting them into storage. That's as much as I do, everything else is just regular housework.
Still having issues with the dog beds though. Hawk (our second dog) came to us with a giant, couch-like bed, we actually call it his couch. Well it's kinda stiff, like furniture -- our other dog beds are washable like big pillows --- it stinks a little of course, and Hawk is VERY attached to it. Not only that, it's HUGE! Like, it won't fit inside his XL crate, so we have to have the crate AND the bed taking up floorspace, and then when it's hot the dogs want to lay on the floor instead of the bed.........So crate + dog couch + dog on floor = no room to walk! LOL
The thing is, we have no storage building, no garage, no extra closet space......no where to STORE this thing in the off season. I really hate to get rid of it, since it's almost like his "blankie" he prefers it over all of the other pillows because it's been his for the longest.
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