New Rug

Today unfolded a little differently than I expected. We had to make an emergency trip to Costco in the morning. Yesterday Larry walked there for exercise and samples. That evening he told me about the avocado hummus he sampled and my face lit up. Last May I had a sample of it and it was my very favorite hummus. We needed to get some before the "special event" ended. It was hummus heaven there with 6 different varieties to sample. Naturally I stocked up and got a few other things.

Larry has been feeling cold. We actually both have colds. This virus doesn't seem too bad though. We both have runny noses and sneezes, but aren't hit hard. At any rate, he figures that our tile floor makes the house cooler than with carpeting. We discussed getting a rug for the great room. Since we have a SW theme going, I figured it might be challenging to find something that would work. I checked the internet and there were hundreds of choices, but it is hard to buy a rug on-line. We remembered seeing some SW rugs at Home on the Range, a furniture and accessories store near us. I called the store, they had a special sale going on (aren't rugs always on sale!), and we rushed over. We found a rug that seems to go just right with our room. Tomorrow I'll find some rug tape to keep it from sliding on the tile. I thought our search for a rug was going to be more challenging and costly. Sometimes things work out easily.

Since we solved our rug problem in record time, we had energy to spare. I read about an antiques fair down the road from us and proposed that we check it out. It was fun. They had tools like my grandfather had as a machinist. (I gave my grandfather's tool like them to cousin Nikki.) It's great that some people still value them. I also saw a Brownie camera like I used to have, a formica dinette set that was like my grandmother's, and sets of dishes from the same era. Seeing all of those things took me back to my childhood. We weren't tempted to buy anything, though. I want to slowly upgrade our art and always have my eyes open. Next year we'll get more serious about it.

Since the antiques fair was so close to the park, we went on to Saguaro National Park East for a hike. The weather was just right for hiking. I keep hoping to see a tarantula on a trail like Joanne and I saw a few years ago. No luck today.