Writing Prompt - Chores -

Story Prompt -

Do you have a favorite house/yard chore? One you dislike? Can you make a cake as well as mow the lawn? Were/are chores defined by gender in your home (no sides here, just a thought)?

I like to dust and vacuum, and weeding is a favorite outside chore. When I lived in Brigham City many years ago, my friend, Renea Allen, and I bought extra-long telephone cords, so we could talk on the phone while we cleaned, baked, did the laundry!

I don't like folding clothes, or ironing them. I enjoy working with shop tools, but I don't care for mowing the lawn.

You?

I wrote a poem about vacuuming several years ago (Oct. 3, 1993), and it still applies (and Jenna says it works with lawn-mowing too):

Around and around
Back and forth
The vibrating beat of the vacuum.
Back and forth.

In a noisy world of my own
The toils of the day
Go
Around and around
Back and forth.

Sift and sort
Push and pull.
I move the sweeper
Through the mindless
Clutter.

Sift and sort
Push and pull.
I move thoughts
Putting order to a
Cluttered mind.

Inhaling the excess off the floor,
The vacuum leaves paths of clean.
Ready for a new day
New activity.

Inhaling
And exhaling
I too have cleaned a path
Ready for tomorrows.