It was about the size of a dime and it was running fast, like they do. I noticed it out of the corner of my eye and what actually caught my attention is the way it was running, they have a particular way they move. I had to move Maggie Moo's food bowl to get to it, which brought her running immediately. She listened to me, for once, and didn't try to eat it (she seems to like to eat spiders). I put the bug jar down and it immediately ran into it. I was pretty sure what it was but I could look at it better in the bug jar and it was very clearly a fiddleback. Brown Recluse is their actual name, but we've always just called them fiddlebacks. It's gone for a very long swim now! Most of the time, we leave spiders alone or relocate them, but not those. They either get squashed (if we have shoes on) or flushed.
We got the carpet cleaning finished up Friday night. I eventually got to run the vacuum. It looks a lot cleaner and smells better. Although we still get a whiff of the smell every so often, but now we think it's the dogs themselves so a bath is on order soon. But not tonight, and not tomorrow because it's going to be very cold tomorrow.
We might get ice tonight. It has been in the 70's the last couple of days and was really nice today, so it's going to feel even colder. The ice chances are not high, but the chance is still there.
I found something today:
Except that mine is olive green, not blue. But my camera is charging so I can't take a picture of it. I think it's the 8" bowl, I haven't measured it but it is big. And heavy. And did I mention that it was only $6.50? Talk about a steal! It was at an antique-ish mall that we haven't been into in a while. It was next to Goldie's, where we had lunch, and we've been talking about moving our booth so we wanted to look at the two close by stores. We went to the first of two next-door stores and I just happened to see the edges of it peeking out from underneath the stuffed bunny that was sitting in top of it. I "may" have also said something to Otter about hoping the seller didn't know what they have! The obviously didn't. It's perfect and it's now holding court on the side top shelf of the entertainment center. We watched Dirty Jobs reruns this morning and one of the episodes was the one where he went to the Fenton company, deja vu! The pattern name is Thumbprint and it was made in the l960's.
Anyway. Otter brought her laundry over, and we all went to lunch at Goldie's. They have the best burgers! We stopped at Wallyworld on the way home for baby oil, which we then used on the tulip bed. We planted 56 bulbs today, and we've got pretty good timing because they need the cold ground. They are fixin to get plenty of cold! This is probably the last year for the tulip bed, at least in that spot. We have been talking about extending the back side fence and it will block the sun from the tulip bed if we do. They will be back, probably not for a couple of years and in a different spot, but I think we'll have them again.
Otter was going to have the car all next week, but with the weather chances we decided to keep it for the next two days. Bill does not really want to drive the El Camino if the weather forecasters do manage to get it right. Her hours for Monday and Tuesday work for me to get her to and from work, although Tuesday I'll bring her back home with me and she'll take the car then. Her Wednesday shift is a possible all-nighter, this is the first late shift she's had in a couple of months.
I'm also going to change Otter's dentist appointment. I really can not get off in the morning to take her, she doesn't want to drive if there is a) ice or b) the slightest chance of needing the anesthesia gas and c) her boss forgot what day she needed off so he scheduled her to start her shift tomorrow at 10:00 - the time of the appointment. He told her that she could just come in afterwards, but I'm going to reschedule it for her. I'll call them the second they open and they'd better not give me any grief about short notice because I originally started calling them on Friday which was before we knew what her schedule is. Thursday, I called them and thought that they might have an answering service but they actually had a message on their voice mail saying that they were closed. On Friday, the message stated that they were busy with other clients and told me to leave a message - and I left two. I think that they were probably closed, but they didn't have anything like that on the voice mail message on Friday - but they did on Thursday.
When she was over here today, we finished going through the stuff in her room. It was mostly the stuff from her bathroom, and most of it went in the trash. Which is what I thought was going to happen. Some has been added to the donate pile, but the majority of it was make up, cosplay make up and thinks like broken earrings, etc. She took some stuff with her also. As of this afternoon, she is officially and 100% completely moved out of her parent's home! There are still a few boxes of her stuff but it's destined for the attic for us to store for her. But for all intents and purposes, she's out of our house.
Bill moved the sofa table to My Room when we were getting ready to clean the carpets. It's still there. It's going to be moved to Bill's Room, also known as the Pachinko workroom/hoard. I moved the dogs blankets to the spot where the sofa table was originally and also have two plants on stands there. They're right in front of the window and will get a good amount of light. I also tossed a cactus that was dead and rearranged my plants in the dining room. Maggie seems to like the blankets, she more or less flew onto them and sprawled out on top of them. When she's not actually awake, she's on her blankets. Frasier hasn't really gone back to them, I think because he liked the spot he always snoozed in and didn't care one way or the other about the blankets. He would frequently move them, we thought he was playing with them but now I realized that he was moving them out of his way. Maggie Moo is quite happy, and she'll be even happier when she realizes that she'll be getting more warmth because of the fireplace. The blankets are not in an area where there is a fire danger, but they are in a spot that will be very warm. She spends quite a bit of her time in the winter snoozing in front of the fireplace anyway!
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