It’s funny how seemingly random events can suddenly be tied together.

I was having our carpets cleaned a couple of days ago. Not big deal, it had been a year. With two kids, two adults, two cats and a dog, the carpets needed cleaning. I hired Monarch Cleaning. I met them in a BNI group and they do a great job. The cleaner showed up and started working.

I knew one of our cats would not like the cleaner and his machine doing it’s job. So when he came too close to her hide out she ran downstairs. I saw her tear through our family room, and then I lost track of her. After a few minutes I decided I had better find out where she went.

She does like to get up on top of our kitchen cabinets, after jumping on our counter and then our refrigerator. This time she wasn’t on the cabinets. She decided that the space between the refrigerator and the cabinets was a better place to hide.

Being 5′ 10″ I am not able to see the top of the refrigerator without standing on tippy-toes. When I did this I saw the cat hiding from the carpet cleaner. What I also saw was 4 years of dust accumulation.

After the carpet cleaner completed his job, very nicely thank you, the cat came down from her hiding place and I got busy cleaning the refrigerator. Since there was not a lot of room above the refrigerator to get in and clean I had to pull it out. No problem, it’s on wheels. Hmmm…should they be making a crunching sound when I pull it out?

Turns out there was more than just dust accumulation. Apparently kids getting their own water from the door, along with the unavoidable dropped food can cause an accumulation of “stuff” just under the base of the refrigerator, just out of sight.

Thankfully I was already in a cleaning mood so the mop came out too. I guess I should write a thank you note to the carpet cleaners, otherwise I don’t know how long that would have gone unnoticed.

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