Gullywasher and More Errands

Out running errand (will it ever stop???) to pick up two pictures I had framed....and that took about 10 minutes, tops.

Just long enough for the sky to open up with a Texas style gullywasher to cut loose as I was about to leave the store.

These shot were taken about five minutes after the storm started. I was waiting with a few other customers for a break in the storm. No sense heading out into a rain storm with newly framed water colors!

When it started hailing, I got pretty jumpy. A brief hail storm can ruin a car's exterior. The biggest hailstone was about the size of a dime, definitely big enough to whack a paint job.

Thankfully, somehow my car was unblemished. I was planning on running a few more errands that night, but seeing as how the sky was turning black in every direction I headed home instead, 'cuz my Mama didn't raise no fool!

Besides, watching a storm is much more interesting activity from the deck.

To make up for missing that bit of errand running, I took a long lunch break the next day.

I was prowling around, out on another area rug hunt.

I already own several great area rugs, the problem is that they are all the highly traditional oriental/persian murky-muddy colored rugs.

I loved them in Houston where the walls and the flooring were all cream.

But here in the lap of the Wasatch Mountains...in a 50's style ranch house...something different is needed.

Way different.

As I mentioned in a prior post, we had fallen in love with a rug that turned out to be unavailable.

Ever noticed that trying to find a second choice that you liked as much as your first choice is almost impossible?

I liked the rug above, but it only came in 5'x8', and I need a 8'x10' rug.

I liked this one's design, but not the brown in it.

Liked this one, but don't want that much red in the room....

I like this one, and it is the right size. Trouble is I feel like it should be in a pre-school classroom.

Love this one...but want more orange in the rug and a brighter shade of green.

Great design though.

Convinced that once again I was either crazy or ahead of my time, I returned to searching the Internet in hope that maybe the rug I wanted could be found somewhere on line, some obscure online shop that I had missed before.

I think I have found the rug we originally wanted. We talked to the shop in Oregon (GO BEAVERS!) and they said they had it in stock.

I have heard that line before, but they assured us that it was true, and the rug pictured below should arrive in a week to ten days. That would be in time for the party.

Can you believe THIS is the rug we are crazy about?

Believe it!