A Random 13

1. I spent yesterday (Wednesday) carpet cleaning.

2. That’s a lie. I hired my son to do it, then helped him with it.

3. Even though I didn’t do the worst of it, my hands hurt from gripping.

4. There are three area rugs I’d love to do before returning the machine, but there’s no way I could clear them off enough to make it worth the effort before my 24 hours are up.

5. Mr. Al is feeling under the weather. He hasn’t had to stay home from a cold in several months.

6. The younger our kids were, the more often we got sick.

7. In a few more years, they will both be out of the house. Then we might not catch colds at all.

8. He’s convalescing in a yukata. A yukata is kind of the casual version of a kimono.

9. Meanwhile our cat is still slowly recuperating from having been hit by a car.

10. For a while he was howling and growling piteously.

11. Turned out one of the bones in his crushed hip had come loose from the plate they put in to hold it all together.

12. He’s on pain meds now, and is much happier.

13. But he’s still no good at using the litter box.