Make state beautiful indoors, outdoors

I’m brand new to Washington. After coming here to visit my son’s family and loving this beautiful country, I decided to move here.

In California we accomplished the “no-smoke indoors” and oh, how nice.

I went into a restaurant a few days ago, thinking it looked nice and was a place to take the family. A darling young lady greeted me and after a few words, I said “Wow! What is that smell? Old, stale, smoke. The young lady said “Oh, yes.”

She told me she puts all her clothes in a plastic bag just inside the door when she gets home, and has to wash her hair or she can’t sleep.

I have friends who smoke and they even love the “cleaner” restaurant and bars.

Also, I am a caregiver and housecleaner – I handle the problem with older folks who have quit smoking – and after I scrubbed their homes, they claim they breath much better and that their homes aren’t yellow-brown anymore.

Good luck to Washington – such a beautiful state. Get the inside as beautiful as the outside.

DIXIANA MUCH

Lynnwood