We no longer know how long this project has taken.  The days melted into weeks which turned into months.  Has it been three months?  Four?  Good grief!!  How long does it take to do the annual Spring Housecleaning at Shiloh???  Of course you have to know a few things before you label us the slowest cleaning crew on the face of the earth.  We can only work in and around the edges of our guests.  Sometimes the work comes to a grinding halt for a day or a week or two. And we don't just clean.  We sort through everything, organize shelves and closets and cupboards, and find new home for whatever we no longer need.  We have twenty one windows to clean, each with it's own personal pair of shutters.  There are five outside doors downstairs, and two outside doors upstairs.  It's a five thousand square foot, two story house with lots of nooks and crannies.  And enough balconies and porches for everyone!  Yesterday we all trudged out to the carport and tore it apart, cleaned it from head to foot, and put everything back in a well organized fashion.  So of course we had a torrential tropical storm blow in last night that dumped unending sheets of rain on us most of the night.  This morning we woke up to an inch of mud that has washed off the road in front of Shiloh, slid under the car gate, and journeyed on down the driveway, to end up in our clean carport!!!  Such is life in the tropics.  But today, this very day, July 19, 2016, we finished the last of the last of the cleaning, sorting, and tossing. 

Now to get really serious about the landscaping.  We always do a bit of snipping here, some trimming there, cutting back the jungle growth over yonder.  It's a continuous project out here.  But tomorrow we put on our gardening gloves and live outside for the next week or two while we put the spit shine on everything.  We will take our already beautiful miniature Garden of Eden and take it to a higher level of WOW!  We're just crazy enough to love doing this kind of work.