Kirrama by Barbara Gunn

Author:Barbara Gunn [Gunn, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Xlibris
Published: 2012-10-21T16:00:00+00:00

View of Kirrama Creek from Kirrama view veranda.

Stacy near horse paddock.

Our next trip to town for supplies consisted of our normal needs plus a lot of cleaning supplies, including lots of bleach, washing detergent, extra brooms, brushes, mops, vinegar and anything that might be needed to clean a complete house. One could not imagine the job that was facing us. It was getting near the wet season so all cattle work had been taken care of except for the ordinary daily chores. The children would not start to school until the upcoming school year which would be around the twenty-fifth of January. This gave us a full work crew for the house. Tate had mowed and cleaned the pathway down and all around the house. He had also shoveled all the floors. No joke, it was a shovel job!

The old table, beds, or anything left in the house was removed to the yard. The straw mattresses were burned along with any trash. I swept down all ceilings, walls of cobwebs and the spiders which Tate assured me were dead due to his earlier spraying. He knew they better be or my help was gone. Everyone was busy doing something. The beds were being scrubbed, disinfected and tightened. Anything useable was needed. We started by scrubbing all walls, ceilings, and floors. We used a garden hose with a pressure nozzle. Thankfully, the whole house was built with tongue-and-groove boards.

The fireplace was built of corrugated iron with ant-bed base. We built a fire in the fire barrel (a fifty five gallon barrel on it sides built up with rock and piped into the shower room) for hot water, connected it to the hose and washed everything down after scrubbing with everything imaginable. We still had very gray walls and ceilings. Next came the bleach treatment; still to no avail. We scrubbed and swept the floors after each attempt. There were only three rooms in the center of the veranda other than the holey dark one on the opposite side of the back veranda which had once been the kitchen. This was sprayed, scrubbed out and put on hold. The shower room certainly got the works, too. All veranda and outside walls were also scrubbed. The windows were last. They were the prettiest part of the house with the cherrywood frames and brass drop handles. They cleaned up beautifully as did the two sets of French doors opening out onto the veranda facing Kirrama Creek. Thus, we named our new home, Kirrama View.

We used a lot of rags to dry the wooden walls as much as possible. Walls were still ashen colored. The next trip to town we purchased some white paint, which was a mistake. It took three coats to get rid of the smoke damage. I found some small cans of paint on sale, cheap. These were light blue and light yellow. I painted one floorboard yellow and the next blue all across Susan and Stacy’s room. By this time, I had evidently lost my mind.

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