Friday, November 19, 2010

New Furniture arrival

Flute lesson was Thursday, I just posted it so late it appeared as if it happened on Friday.
sorry about that.
This morning Lary walked for about an hour, and I Di went over to the pool here and did water aerobics from a CD with 2 other ladies.
Then we kind of sat around waiting for the furniture to arrive. It did, and what a to - do.

We hadn't taken into consideration the narrow width of our doorway, not to mention the height of it, and the length of the sofa. All in all it posed a huge challenge to the 2 delivery guys, who were very good natured about it all, but ended up removing first our front stairway to the house, then had to remove first the glass sliding door, then the fixed part of the same sliding door, plus the retractable screen attached to said doorway, in order to get the sofa in to the house. Whew, they took about 2 hours in all, and it was quite a job.

The house has likely had tons of owners, each making more and more changes to it, and they had to cope with all that. We ordered a sofa with beige microfibre seats and arms, but a patterned back, greens, burgundy and medium brown. And the recliners are sage green microfibre. It doesn't look pop fabulous, but the sofa is never leaving in our lifetimes I believe. It looks way better than the tired and beaten up, dated recliners and sofa that we had.

Later we went out to Catalina Spa and had a spaghetti dinner and visited with a couple who we met last year from Kamloops, very nice people. Their dog had been under the weather as she gulps up stuff when they are out on the desert walking, and perhaps had eaten something bad for her.

It has turned quite chilly tonight, and windy too, temps have plummeted, and they may be low like this for the weekend, and then go on up into the 70s, but nothing like what we have had.

Thursday night on the way home from Annie's we had eaten at Sherman's Deli.

Tomorrow Annie invited us over to her place to play music together, with our flutes. Should be grand, we were going to head off to Modjeska Canyon about 2 hours away toward the coast, but there are flood and heavy rain warnings up, so we will avoid the 2 hour drive on soggy highways.