spring cleaning is a pain in the neck

Ugh, I scrubbed maybe a quarter of my back porch this afternoon and I just couldn't keep going. I haven't properly cleaned the boards in years, you see -- and neither did my landlord nor any of the previous tenants -- so both the dirt and the moss/lichen/whatever are thoroughly embedded in the wood and need extensive forceful scrubbing to even start coming out. By the time I called it quits, my wrists were killing me.

On the bright side, I added both detergent and bleach into my water bucket, so hopefully I've poisoned whatever I wasn't able to remove via manual labor. :-)

Tomorrow I'll try for another quarter.

Tomorrow I also want to get a haircut and buy some groceries, so yeah. Busy day!