Back from vacation

Does everyone's house go completely to hell while unattended for a week? I'm bowled over at the yucky clean up in aisle fourteen going on since I returned. Shouldn't my house just hum along, waiting for my return. I may never get on top of it again.

My garden looks like someone took packets of weed seeds and sprinkled them everywhere. I had these beds looking pretty fine when I left. What happened? I pulled enough crab grass yesterday out of my flower beds for several lawns worth of crab grass.

No wonder houses that stand empty fall apart so quickly. I guess I don't realize how much I'm holding back total collapse for my house. Almost makes me feel like I must be doing something while I'm here. Wow, that's a new sensation.

So wish me luck on restoring some amount of order to chaos. Confidence is not high.