Cleaning frenzy

When Tom asked what we should do today, I told him we needed to do some cleaning up around the house. Things have been piling up for the past week.

Well, he took me WAY serious. So we vacuumed the rugs in the living room, library, dining room and his office. He rolled them up and carried them out to the apron of the garage and shampooed them with our handy-dandy rug cleaner. Meanwhile I swept, steamed and otherwise cleaned the floors, cleaned up the kitchen counters and stove, swept out the coat closet and even the broom closet and finally washed the cover for the sofa cushions. (We use a futon cover, and it is not too hard to manage, although it took both of us to wrestle the cushions back into it.)

The cats, meanwhile, decided this was madness, madness, I tell you! They disappeared somewhere, poking a head out from behind doors from time to time to see if the foolishness was over yet.

We took a break for lunch and Tom watched an episode of "Wanted: Dead or Alive" with Steve McQueen. He found a DVD with 18 episodes from the first season (of three) and is steadily working his way through them. The thing I find most notable is that the background music is intrusive and overly dramatic.