Cleaning House


As I've mentioned, I now live in a motorhome - with three dogs and a husband.  I needed a vacuum - a tiny, tiny vacuum.  The motorhome came with a hand held dirt devil.  I thought that I'd give this a try.  


A couple of days after moving in, I decided to see what I could store under the seats in the dinette.  As I opened one side, I noticed light coming in.  The dinette is above the wheel-well and there was a small gap in the sealant.  I knew that I'd have to fix that.  Then I saw it, the medium brown fur, gone flat, and the tiny turds.  Yup, a mouse had crawled into the space at some point and died.  (Later I found the mouse killer that had been placed there as well.)  With a pair of nitrile gloves and a plastic bag, I cleaned up the mouse, but I needed to vacuum the mouse poop up.  I live in an area where Hanta Virus lives.  It's important to be careful when cleaning up mouse poop.  


I pulled out the little Dirt Devil, turned it on, attempted to vacuum.  Worthless.  I threw the Dirt Devil away.  


So much for cleaning up the mouse poop. 


After a bit of quick internet sleuthing, though, I found the perfect thing.  A Dyson City, a very small canister vac.  

It's perfect!  That's my ipod next to it.  It cleaned up the mouse poo (and a week's worth of dog hair and dirt) in nothing flat.  Now it lives under the seat, ready to attack errant fuzz, sand and even miller moths!