The treasure trove of long lost toys!

Does anyone remember learning that you should vacuum under your stove when you clean? I've stuck a broom under there but not a vacuum. I didn't learn that in Home Ec! Oh, wait, I didn't take Home Ec, I took music. Riiiiight!

Well, anyways, I figured that if I was going to clean up after Jingle's cleanup, I may as well do it right. So out comes the vacuum, and around the tiles I go (it's so much better than a broom and dustpan before you mop). I decided to put the extension on and stick it under the fridge. I was thinking "well, maybe some dustbunnies appeared". All of a sudden a strange noise started coming from my vacuum, I pulled the extension out and found a spring being tortured at the end of the hose, slowly being sucked into the weee, tiny little hole that is my vacuum head. I rescue the spring and return to the dustbunnies. Again a strange noise, this time, a large chunk of blue glass from a custard cup I broke months ago (I thought I got all that when I broke it).

I try to rescue the chunk of glass but idiotically forget to turn the vacuum off first and the second I touch the glass, it goes "whoosh" into my vacuum hose. Frantically turning the vacuum off, I open the canister to see if the glass is in there, or wedged in the hose, slowly cutting through my expensive little Bissell (poor vacuum). To my relief, I see the flash of blue through the pound of dust and cat hair (Jingle, you really need a hair cut girl) and carefully pull it out and throw it away.

So, back to the dust bunnies (most of which are already in the canister). One more pass under the fridge and I find nothing of interest, including dust bunnies. Must have done the job well!

I start to get up and look at the stove. "Hmm, may as well, since I'm already down here." But what could possibly be under the stove anyways? That's the one place that I CAN see with a flashlight, that I can reach with a broom. "There's nothing under there!"

Woah, Nelly! Back up the truck a minute! Here I am, happily attacking dustbunnies under the stove when all of a sudden... "shluuuuuurp!". A bouncy ball appears at the end of the hose. I rescue it and go back for more. "Shluuuuurp!". A spring, "shluuuuurp!", a fuzzy ball, another spring, a furry ball, Santa, and another furry ball! It was like Christmas! Or maybe it just felt like that because I found Santa (Hey Mom, I found Peewee's Santa that you lost, must have lost it at my place, not yours!). Either way, the treasure trove under my stove was amazing! And the furry balls I had been looking for for months! Starting to sound like I never clean, isn't it?!

So after all that work, and cleaning off the toys, I thought I'd show you what we found. Enjoy and be amazed! Some of those toys I even forgot that Jingle owned!

Oh, and the floors eventually got done and Jingle is now fast asleep after tiring herself with housecleaning. Brilliant!