so, started out the morning by cleaning up my bedroom and bathroom.... the floor got vacuumed, and the floor got mopped, and the bed was made...

DM and i made plans to cleaning for two, count 'em, two more hours and then take out the yaks, and then work with the horses...

so, next stop was the living room, picking up toys, vacuuming, it was a real mess ....

then i went upstairs to clean up, vacuum, and generally tidied the place up.... i also got DM to fix the screen, and hang a shelf...

the laundry was folded, there was a huge pile of that, DM mopped the bathroom...

i got DM to hang up some stuff in the living room...

then DM was tuckered out and needed a short nap while an excellent pot of collard greens were cooked...

and eaten...

then we needed a trip to k-mart for a canning pot so i could brandy those pears, but first we stopped at the garage to see if my canning pot was out there- it wasn't...

we purchased the $50 pot.... we took it home, then noticed the label said, "not for use on glass cooktops".... so, it had to go back, and the $80 one had to be purchased, fuck....

then it was time to sterilize the jars, peel the pears, pack the jars and all that jazz...

we ran out of brandy, the last five jars have rum instead, i also did two jars of peaches, the last batch just went in the canner...

the kitchen is still a mess and it is 9pm....

i am pretty sure that i hate labor day.