House cleaning in Castle Rock, CO

Cleaning a home in Castle Rock

Castle Rock sits up on the Palmer Divide between Denver and Colorado Springs, higher and greener than the plains below it. Scrub oak covers the hillsides and ponderosa pine grows in stands around the houses. The oak holds small leathery leaves late into fall and then drops them all at once. Cottonwoods along the creek bottoms let go of their cotton in early summer, and it drifts up against doors and screens.

Pine needles are the ones that stick around. They wedge into door mats, carpet edges and the tracks of a sliding door, and a vacuum head has to work them loose. Oak leaves blow into garages and window wells and break into small pieces underfoot. In cotton season the screens, porch corners and the entry get cleared more than once, because it comes back the same afternoon.