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Yesterday I started a chore I’ve been putting off for two years. After a month of (not so) subtly hinting the husband could help me, I gave up and did it myself. Armed with a spray bottle of bleach, multiple scrubby sponges and a pressure hose attachment I attacked the shady sides of our vinyl sided garage.
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Naturally I forgot to take a before photo…
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But this is what I was battling, and trust me it’s a workout. Green, moldy algae discoloration that didn’t want to let go.
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It’s the result of kicked up ground water, stuck grass clippings from my husband’s giant lawn tractor and a lack of direct sunlight drying the rain.
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The woodchucks tunnel under this door and have ruined the surrounding lawn… but patches of loose dirt that became muddy with bleach soaked water yielded an interesting result.
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Worms.
Here a worm, there a worm. Worms everywhere … wriggling out of the ground in protest. Clearly they did not enjoy a bleach bath.
Sorry worms. It had to be done.
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*Following photo for Boo who wanted to see my pressure washing attachment. *
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River's world..... 
How would you like it if I threw bleach all over you?!?!!? I thought so!!!
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I was covered in it as well. It was a windy day ….
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I have one wall of my shed needs doing. And a woodchuck needs leaving.
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I bought a little $15 pressure washing hose attachment thingy from Lowes and it works great. On the siding, not the woodchuck.
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hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
we don’t have a Lowe’s close .
Send me a photo?
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Now I’ve got Nirvana’s “Come As You Are” running through my brain.
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You say that like it’s a bad thing….
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It is most definitely not a bad thing.
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Wow, worms are yucky. But your siding looks really good now. But not having before pictures I couldn’t say for sure, lol.
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It was pretty green, but only a third of the way up.
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Poor worms! I have been putting off pressure washing! I’m using the excuse that we are in a drought!
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I just couldn’t stand it anymore. A little spring cleaning does a body good. Unless you’re a worm of course….
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Those are some pretty sporty looking night crawlers. Did the bleach kill them? I hope not, bait doesn’t get any better than that.
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No, they just wriggled out and off.
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The deer get apples. The fox gets corn. The woodchuck gets lettuce. The worms get bleach. Something for everyone at Chez River…
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When you put it that way it doesn’t seem fair…
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Yeah. That green shit can be a problem. We recently removed a wood fence and replaced it with that beautiful Vinyl stuff. When we noticed that the fences around us got that stuff. We decided to stone (pea gravel) the base of the fence about 12 inches out and 3 inches deep, hoping it will keep wet and dirt from splatting up when it rains, and by extension, keeping the algae from it’s offensive attack. So far, so good.
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It only affects the shady spots, and we had a really wet winter …. but it does creep up on you.
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The poor earthworms were only in there doing their job before the harsh bleach hit them. They’ll get you back somehow, someday. 😳
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I know. I feel badly…
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