Erin Sparler’s Blog

…you use a snow shovel, a garbage bag, and a second story window to clean house.

So I bought a house in Perry Country. Now everyone likes to joke that Perry Country is redneck country, but I just laughed at them ’til last night.

Last night as I’m sitting in my art room working on my portfolio, I hear this loud crash and the sound of glass breaking. Its garbage night and so I just figure someone took out the recycling bin. Well about 5 minutes later, I hear a second loud crash. This time it sounds like a old metal garbage can tilling over. From the bedroom, E (who was sleeping) yells, “What was that? Are you alright?”

I yell back, “That wasn’t me, I think there is a raccoon in the garbage!”

Well, two minutes later there comes a third crash. E gets up to go look. He comes back a minute or two later to say, “You’re not going to believe this but, the neighbors are cleaning with a snow shovel, a broom, and a garbage bag! And I guess they’re too lazy to carry it downstairs cause they are throwing it out second floor window!”

I guess when you have 7 kids living in just 2 stories, its just easier to shovel it all right out the window.