Day Nine

As the days grew dryer the dust increased until I found it increasingly necessary to mop twice a day.  The mop took so long to rinse out that all this cleaning became too much to accomplish.  

I wondered if the mop needed to be completely clean after all and decided to try not rinsing it so often.  It seemed to make no difference to the house, so I rinsed less and was able to keep the floor clean.

This meant leads water for the garden, of course, but I thought I must leave that for someone stronger to care for.  Meanwhile the water I did use still ran from the moat into the garden.

With the dry weather, the grass had mostly withered, so I no longer had to cut it, but was able to clean up some of the debris in the yard.