Miscelleny

We are slowly getting used to no chairs.  Seems a bit strange at first, but it's going to be good.  We are loving the spaciousness, though.  It's so much less cluttered in the living room now. 

We might have a buyer of the recliners.  Cross your fingers!  In the meantime we are sitting on them outside under the canopy.  The neighbors'  comment is "Now that's what retirement looks like,"  when she walked by and saw us sitting there this morning. 

We spent yesterday looking for ottomans/footstools here in town.  No luck.  Everything to big, too heavy, too ugly or too expensive.

Today our neighbor mentioned storage cubes.  I googled (I love that verb)  and then I ordered covered, collapsible, storage cubes to use as footstools. What a brilliant idea for a small space.  

Today we bought new throw pillows to add color and class the place up a little. 

I had a query from a faithful reader as to what I did with yarn basket that had been behind the chair.  Well, with a tray that Roger made and a nice placemat it is now our "coffee" table.  It sits on the floor register, but is light and moveable so we just slide it over when we go to bed.  

We are trying to figure out what the little "register" like things are in the front of the sofa.  It looks like air vents - but why?  Any ideas? 

On my walk this morning I took pictures of sites to send to an acquaintance who will be coming  to camp at the end of the month for a couple of days.  We met her and her partner last year in Yuma.  We connected because she was also a Navy Photomate at the same time I was and was stationed in DC at the same time.  We had the same instructors at photo school and remember a lot of the same people.  It turns out they live in Minden - about 40 miles south of our house in Sparks.  Nice ladies who do a lot of traveling in their motor home.  

The sad and stupid story for the day -  Last summer we put new tires on the truck.  Discount Tires had a deal - use their financing and get a good sale price and double gift cards as an incentive.  We did and I've been carrying them around in my wallet.  We used one for lunch when we took Steph and Pierce out in Long Beach last month.  I was going to use the other for the throw pillows and other RV stuff today.  Seems I cut up the wrong gift card.  The one I saved had $0 on it when I tried to use it today (embarrassing, BTW).  I must have got them switched somehow.  $75 down the drain - well, actually cut up and put in the trash.  I spent the afternoon kicking myself.  What a dumb thing to do and what a waste!  

Coyotes, mice, now what?   When we first got here we were occasionally awakened at night by a really strange sound all over the RV.  It turns out that the radio was on and the volume was up and we were getting static over the speaker system.  We turned down the volume button as far as it would go and forgot about it.  In the last month I've had a couple of restless nights and have gone out to the living room to read or just try to calm Maggie down because she was on what we call "high alert."  Three times now while I've been in the living room - generally between 11:30p and 12:30a the radio turns itself on.  It's a radio/cd/dvr player with lots of buttons and a clock.  They all light up a bright blue when they come on.  It is totally spooky.  I get up and turn it off and then sit there looking around for visitors.  It's weird. I want to know if it is only doing it while I am out there.  If it isn't how does it get turned off afterward?  It's always off when we get up in the morning.   One of these days Roger is going to have to check the wiring or we are going to have to call Ghostbusters.  

A teaser - this iteration (the last one, I hope) of the bathroom rug is coming along
 but still has a long way to go.  Here are the colors.