A Homeless Man Cleaned Our Windows

Usually when a homeless person comes to you with a squeegee and offers to clean your windows, it happens at a stoplight in the city and the offer is unwanted. Well, in our case, it happened at our house and we jumped at the opportunity.

The homeless person, in this situation, was Leif. Since his previous landlord sold the house Leif was living in back in March, he has been staying with us off and on waiting for that "perfect" rental to come along. One corner of our shop is dedicated to storing his stuff, and our guest room is the closest thing he has to his own room (when it isn't occupied by other guests.)

But it's actually nice having him around. Since he's working for himself now - splitting his time between his artsy side (painting) and his engineering side (continuing to develop an idea he had while at U.W.) - he's at our place many days and earns his keep by doing tasks around the house. On a few occasions he has had dinner awaiting us when we arrived home from work, and he's done some weeding around the property.

Cleaning the windows is a fairly large task at our place, so we were delighted to have the help!

- Mike (& Corinne)