My New Fall Cleaning BFF

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of BISSELL Homecare, Inc. for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

As you all know by now, “Fall” is my favorite season. I love the crisp nippy air of Fall. I love the bursting color of Fall. And I love the changing sceneries of Fall. However, if there is anything I don’t like about it – it’s the cleaning part of it.

Good thing I have a wonderful helper so the changing season will surely be easy-breezy. Yup, my Sweetest got me the new BISSELL PowerGlide® with Lift-Off® Technology. And this is my new BFF in the cleaning department. This baby is lightweight yet powerful enough to tackle our home’s toughest messes, including pur stairs, the heavy drapes and other hard-to-reach places like under the bed, the sofa and every nook and cranny of your haven.

This baby is really wonderful because of its key features: No won’t loss of suction and sealed system. It has one-step removable pod for portable cleaning, long-stretch hose, 12-inch foot for stability, 27-foot cord, lightweight, swivel steering for maneuverability, adjustable handle for easy use and storage, large capacity dirt cup, and it has TurboBrush® and crevice tool.

Cleaning is not really my department. I don’t really like it but I don’t have a choice. But since I have a new BFF - BISSELL  that can help me do my chore easy-breezy I learned to enjoy Fall cleaning now .
So here are some helpful cleaning tips that you can use on how you can enjoy Fall Cleaning.

Parties & Entertaining
1. The five places you’ve never thought to clean – and your guests will notice
• Stairs and railings, ceiling corners, underneath furniture, window and door frames and behind the bathroom toilet.
• PGLO lift-off pod, crevice tool and swivel steering help to clean hard-to-reach places that other vacuums can’t.
2. How to clean for out-of-town visitors/overnight guests/last-minute holiday guests
• Steps to ready the house for guests, including prepping overnight rooms.
• Quick steps to a cleaner home when last-minute guests are on their way.
3. Party prep checklist
• Steps to make sure your home is ready for your next big bash – what you should do one week, one day and one hour before guests arrive.4. Your worst party messes – solved!
• Party guests come for the fun, but they leave behind plenty of messes for hosts to clean up, specifically food crumbs, drink stains and tracked-in dirt from outside.
5. Holiday cleaning
• There’s no place like home for the holidays, so it’s important that the house looks its best.
• Tips for cleaning before, during and after the holiday season.

Parenting & Pets
1. Cleaning up after play dates, sleepovers, school-year study sessions, etc.
• When kids come together, the messes multiply – quick ways to clean up leftover messes from kids’ play dates, slumber parties and study sessions.
• Messes such as after-school/movie snacks; art projects; paint, pen and marker stains; and sticky messes like glue, juice boxes and more.
2. Chore checklist for the entire family
• Get the entire family involved in cleaning the house with tasks that family members of every age can easily do.
3. Cleaning kid (and pet) messes in the car
• Families spend a lot of time in the car between road trips, school carpools and everyone’s activities. So, it’s not hard to see why there can be just as many messes in the car as in the home.
4. Quick touch-ups when you have little time to clean
• Quick cleaning solutions for every room in the house when you only have 5, 10 or 15 minutes.
5. Your pets aren’t confined to one room in the house and neither are their messes
• As furry members of the family, pets have free reign of the house, but they also take their messes with them.
• PGLO is lightweight enough to move to wherever messes are in the house. Its lift-off pod, crevice tool and long-stretch hose make it easy to clean hard-to-reach pet hair and tracked-in dirt.

Home Décor & Improvement
1. How to keep your home looking like new after redecorating
• A lot of time and resources go into making a home feel like new – cleaning guidelines to keep the home looking its best.
2. The vacuum that cleans every room in the house
• With the PGLO, the vacuum isn’t just for floors anymore – highlight a room-by-room outline of other things PGLO can easily clean, such as stairs, furniture, lamp shades, knick-knacks, bathrooms, the car, etc. Lightweight design makes it easy to carry from room to room.
3. Fall cleaning checklist
• Before winter sets in, it’s important to do another thorough cleaning of the house from top to bottom – what cleaning projects to tackle.
• Checklist to include: cleaning out cabinets, drawers and cabinet tops that have accumulated since spring cleaning and need another clean; cleaning floors; cleaning upholstery, which can collect just as much dirt, crumbs and hair; etc.
• PGLO’s long-stretch hose, lift-off pod and crevice tool make it easy to clean all of these tough places to ensure a clean home for the fall/winter months.
4. Home cleaning and maintenance tips for your next home improvement/DIY project
• While home improvement/DIY projects are meant to make the home look better, the stages between can actually put the home in a state of disarray.
• PGLO has no loss of suction, lift-off pod, long-stretch hose and large capacity dirt cup to clean up tough messes like sawdust, tracked-in dirt, and other particles.
5. Items in your home that you aren’t cleaning but you should be
• Ceiling fans, vents, artwork and computer keyboards are just some of the overlooked items where dirt and grime can collect- what to do to clean them regularly.

Well, I hope I was able to give you important tips on how to make Fall Cleaning fun. And here is another thing that you need to know. Do you want to know a secret? Just between us… enter to win a great promo for BISSELL. Buy any of the following products:
• PowerGlide Pet Vacuum with Lift-Off Technology - 2763
• PowerGlide Pet Bagged Rewind Vacuum - 38631
• PowerGlide Pet Vacuum – 1044

and you get $20 off with Free Shipping. Just use the promo code: POWERGLIDE. It’s valid from 9/12/2013 until 11/30/2013 so you still have lots of time to take advantage of this wonderful change to own this wonderful Fall Cleaning Helper.

SO what are you waiting for? Get yourself one of these babies and have yourself a new Fall Cleaning BFF.

PYO Apple

One of my favorite seasons here in Maine is the Apple Season. It’s yummy. It’s crunchy. It’s sweet. Summer is almost over and Apple Season came early this year. It is now time to go out and take a trip or two to the orchards and PYO [pick your own apples] is the way to go. It's easy. It's fun. And it's yummy! [If you know what I mean.]

 

I took a trip to the Apple Orchards with my friends. We had breakfast of apple cider donuts with cinnamon and sugar sprinkles and hot apple cider tea at the picnic table located near the farm store and gift shop while enjoying whatever seasonal event they had scheduled for the day.

Apple Ciders and Donuts are a great match.

Apple Cider Donuts are the best donuts around this time.

There are lots of orchards around Maine. People from all over the state and tourists alike come to the orchard to buy their fruits in season. It serves as a fun family activities that Mainers look forward to every summer.

Brackett's Orchard in Limerick

Apple Acres Orchard in Cornish, Maine

Libby's and Sons Orchard in Limerick, Maine

These orchards are open to the public for apple picking. People can pick the apples directly from the tree by hand... or with a special tools... and pay them by the pound. PYO is the best way to buy your fruits when in season because you can choose the fruit straight from the tree. Sampling them is a bonus since you can't do that in the grocery store. LOL

Picking apple straight from the tree.

Apple picking using a special tool.

These special tools for picking apples from the top of the tree are very handy

for vertically challenged people like me. wink**

Apple picking is not just the reason why we go to the Orchards. Believe me you, but there are lots of fun activities and events that your family can enjoy in the orchards aside from picking apples and eating them.

I enjoy... people watching...

I enjoy listening to live music...

I am so excited with the hayrides...

I like getting stuck at the apple maze...

I love to hear the laughter of the kids at play...

and exploring the orchard...

And maybe I would like to have my picture taken in one of those painted objects that has hole in it where you stick your head out.

Well, I don’t expect to get sick this season for I eat more than one apple a day now. Wink* But surely I will keep coming to get my apples from the Orchard until the season ends.

For more interesting places and orchards to go PYO, check out the following link:
1. Brackett's Orchard
2. Libby & Son U-Picks Orchard
3. Apple Acres Orchard

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A Photo Walk at the Pumpkin Patch

It was a nice day today despite the freezing temp. It was a cloudless blue sky and I was in the mood for a drive and ended up in a farm in Lebanon, Maine.

Unaware of what is going on all over the world - it's the Scott Kelby's Worldwide Photowalk 2012, I decided to do a Photo Walk at Belgian Meadows Farm. It was such a wonderful experience.

 The sprawling lush farm.

These are just some of the hundreds of photos I took today that I want to share for Scott Kelby's Worldwide Photowalk 2012. Too bad they don't qualify as contest entries since I did a photowalk all by myself.

 One of the carriages scattered all over the farm.

 

It was too late when I found out that there was indeed an organized photowalk in Portland Head Light this morning to capture the lighthouse during sunrise. But still even if I knew, I still can't do it because it is my race day today.

 Pumpkins on the wagon.

Pumpkins all over the ground.

 

 The biggest of them all.

So this post is just for "awareness" purposes. Or maybe for my own awareness since almost 35,000 plus photography enthusiasts allover the world knew about it but me. And even if I did a photowalk today, I had no clue that such photowalk was happening until my brother Japol told me about it.

Next year, I will surely joined the thousand photowalkers and be more prepared for it. Iwill make it sure too that I will sign up for it too. Wink***

Note: To find out more about Scott Kelby's Worldwide Photowalk 2012... click HERE. And for Lebanon's Belgian Meadows Farm... click HERE.

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This is how...

Here in my world... when it is winter time

and when it is ice-fishing season...

This is how - we go around the lake.

This is how we carry our stuff to the frozen lake.

This is how we catch fish.

This is how we cook our meal.

This is how we chill our drink.

And this is how we keep warm.

It is cool in my world... literally and figuratively. So stay warm friends.

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Snow Storm

It's that time of the year where I need to brace myself for the bitter cold days. It's that time of the year when I need to bundle up and protect myself from frostbite. And it's that time of the year where everything I see is breathtakingly beautiful... and yet so treacherous. 

Yes, it is that time of the year here in Standish...

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