Monday - Labor Day

Rise at 8:30 and follow the morning routines.

We look over some things and decide that we need to clean the carpets. When one of the cats was sick, he peed on the landing going upstairs. Over a week or so, there was a literal pissing match, so that part of the stairs smells pretty bad. I head out to compare & contrast a rental steam cleaner with getting a dedicated upright cleaner. I opt for the latter, assuming that we will be cleaning the carpets more than eight times in our lives. Bring this home and we begin the all-day task of rug cleaning. It is marginally effective on the fouled landing (the smell cut down somewhat, but not enough), but pulls a tremendous amount of dirt out of the other stairs and the regular carpets. The landing in the entryway yields a mud pile, and I'm sure there is still more that could come out, but that's for another time.

Some light reading of the knife skills book in between carpets, as well as just before bed. I also trimmed out two split chicken breasts for grilling and boiled the bones with some frozen chicken for broth. We ended up having tuna for dinner, but at least this was done and is now ready for us to grill at a moments notice.