I'm with you about that price of butter; I bought some at Costco in a 4 brick package (not sticks, there were none to be had), it is rarely for sale at my gourmet warehouse place any more.

At least a case-worth of canned goods left the house yesterday with friends, who kindly brought their own boxes for jar transport. I try to keep the boxes new Mason jars came in to hold filled jars and catch jars as they are emptied, and today I've been moving empty jars into the back of the hall closet that is part-one of my two-part pantry system. I've rediscovered plastic storage containers and ceramics in there that will actually be handy over the holidays (lots of thick ceramic footed trivets and elegant serving bowls, for example). I should thin out the storage containers.

Scrubbing the tile in the den today, a few squares at a time while my ex is using my carpet cleaner on his living room carpet. Here we are scrambling to clean the houses that the kids did such a good job of messing up when they were young.

I'll finish trimming around the front and back yards today, the last time for the season. I need to clean out the SUV (I have an explosion of cloth shopping bags in the back seat - they can live in the garage for a while) and be prepared to open up the third row of seats. This is a balance of the esthetic of a tidy yard and the practicality of a tidy vehicle.

New heat pump tomorrow, and I'll spend the day working on removing the last of the adhesive from the hall bathroom floor. Dogs will spend the day in the yard.