So as a friendly reminder inserted here, this is a declutter and fitness thread, and bickering carried in from other threads by the usual suspects is deleted and NOT appreciated.

Today after the gym I stopped by a rug shop on that side of town to ask about getting my Persian carpets cleaned. I have two small ones and one modest sized one, and I've heard good things. The place is stacked high with carpets - if you want to buy one that is in one of these stacks it is going to take a lot of work to get it out. He discourages browsing, he wants to know the size and color you're looking for if he's going to stir himself to do that much heavy lifting. I'll take one of them over next week and see what he quotes. I'm guessing we're looking at about $100 per rug. Some of the bigger and very old ones can be very expensive to clean; mine date from the turn of the last century and came from the family home. To my knowledge they have never been cleaned, only regularly vacuumed (at least in the 40 years I've had them).

It's too late to work in the yard this afternoon, the mosquitoes would eat me alive, but I'll get started working on that juniper again in the morning. I'm looking forward to how it looks ones the trunk flare (also called root flare) is exposed. And to start mixing up potting soil to do some pot planting for this fall. (I will go spend a few minutes picking okra - I have to do that every day.)