12-7-08 Sunday (Gangrene in Idaho)

Today we're going to Idaho for cigarettes. Oh the things we smokers do (aside from hacking and coughing). We're discovered Washington is expensive on cigarettes. I did some Internet searching and found a chart that says what the state tax is per pack. Washington adds $2.02 per pack, whereas Idaho is 57 cents. It's only a 25 minute drive so we'll stock up. Yes, yes, I know it would be better to stop smoking but definitely not easier.

A long time ago, a saw/read a helpful tip about keeping furniture slipcovers in place. Wedge a dowel rod between the seat bottom and seat back. This keeps the slipcover from uhhhh slipping. It's a slipcover so maybe it's supposed to slip? I think not, though. Anyway, we fixed that up. I took a picture for the blog and then decided it would be fun to give you a tour of the photo. So here it is:

1. Black and Decker coffee maker. Freed up lots of counter space. The yellow bungees are used to secure the pot for travel.
2. The newly recovered dinette.
3. This is a storage spot behind the couch. The top middle part lifts for storing a small ironing board. Behind the couch (can't be seen) are 2 more storage areas. One has an outlet in it.
4. Icky pitted brass light fixture. The fixture itself is OK but I'm going to try my trusty Rustoleum on it.
5. Standard issue RV night/day shades. The white is light filtering. The green can be pulled down all the way for privacy and room darkening. We may replace all of these with mini blinds.
6. Battery operated real wax candles my mom gave to me as a gift. They're realistic and SAFE.
7. I recently mounted speakers that we plug into the laptop for movies.
8. I love my digital photo frame!
9. Clea the cat, guardian of couches.
10. The dowel rod is wedged here. 72" long. We actually used an extension pole we had on hand. We were going to buy PVC pipe.
11. Another pet bed. Helps protect surfaces from icky body oils.
    

That concludes today's tour. Please stop by our gift shop. On sale now:

Garret's series of How To Books. Featuring our best seller: Make Your Bed in 60 Easy Steps

Also, buy one Cookie Catastrophe and get a Muffin Massacre for free.

Thanks to Liz, for enlightening me on a new equality campaign. Read about it here.

We made it to and obviously from Idaho. Nothing all that interesting. We were amused (it takes so little) at this car lot called "Go Green". It was closed.... forever. We're guessing, people in Idaho didn't want to go green? Perhaps they would have done better if they had electric tractors and threw in a free sack of potatoes? Maybe they didn't pay their electric bill? I thought that maybe it sounded to much like "Gangrene".



Tomorrow is a travel day to Seattle, where it will be foggy, cold, rainy and probably windy. Such as life.

After we got home from Idaho, we went back out to a Harbor Freight. I forgot to take my camera on this short trip. Of course it's when I really needed it. As we pass a residential neighborhood, I saw what looked like a house with several planter toilets in front of it. We looped back around and it was funny, but totally stupid. 5 or 6 toilet bowls with plants coming out, some had broken tanks, were lined up in front of their house. I'd want to move.