(Post 139 of 263. Thanks again to those who participated in the Fundrazr. As I mentioned in the post announcing Bast’s passing from COVID, I thank everyone for your generous donations to the original Fundrazr campaign, which resulted in sponsored 263 posts. I will continue to honour the commitment to write those 263 posts, but I will not commit to more. The link above is to a new campaign to help Bast’s family.)<\/p>\n
I’ve never been much of a housekeeper and I don’t think I worried about dust in my home a day in my life until I moved here. But here, dust will not be ignored. M\u00e9rida is a very dusty city — some blame the climate, some blame the lack of vegetation, some blame city maintenance. Whatever the reason, when you live to the open air like I do, dust will invade take over your house. But as if that wasn’t enough, add in the humidity and dust will mould and eat into your belongings (especially leather). A once-a-week visit from my house cleaner isn’t enough. You have to clean a lot (ideally once daily) here. The only way to make that task less onerous, especially in a house the size of mine, is to choose furniture with clean lines, to not have a lot of needless decorative items, and to keep what you can behind closed doors. I figured that out for my books and decorative items (glass-doored bookcases are great in this climate!), but it took me way too long to figure it out for my shoes!<\/p>\n
This is where I’ve been keeping my shoes (well, sandals), most of these years.<\/p>\n
Every time I want to wear a non-daily pair, I have to clean a layer of crud from it.<\/p>\n It finally occurred to me that I needed a shoe cabinet. The kind with the drawers that tilt out would take up the least space.<\/p>\n It still cracks me up that I lived in this house for YEARS before I noticed that the two light switch plates are different colours!<\/p><\/div>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_7388-scaled.jpg\")
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