This plant sits in front of the picture window in my bedroom. I have no idea what it is. It was a gift from the owners of
the stray dog who showed up here last February. Amazingly, I've kept it alive for four months, which may be an all-time record. It's not that I don't water my plants; it's that the water here is so darned hard that they choke to death. Which brings me to the point of this post. Sort of.
Let's turn our attention to the window behind the plant. We had about 30 seconds of rain last week during a dust storm, and all of my windows became opaque. Lovely, eh? This window looks particularly stunning with Smooch's snout slobber on the inside.
Anyway, about the same time, I happened to come across this post on
The Magic Way to Clean Your Windows. Could three ingredients (dish detergent, Jet Dry, and water) and a simple, no-squeegee-needed process really deliver streak-free windows?
Of course not! Not when the last step in the process is to rinse the windows with the hose...when the water coming out of the hose is hard enough to choke the life out of plants and the color out of clothes. I so wanted to believe this magic formula would work for me, but it didn't. Other folks who have tried it swear by it. They must have city water.
I ended up washing all the windows my usual way, scrubbing them with an ammonia/water solution, then using a squeegee to dry them off and make streaks, then going back over the streaks with Windex and a rag. Takes forever but at least I can see out of them
until the next dust storm for a few days.
