We Bought Furniture

Elkmont, Florida

Weather: low 47 degrees, high 57 degrees, cloudy, rain all night and until the middle of the morning

We were out in the rain early this morning as we stepped up the search for furniture for the new home base. At least it was early compared to what we have been doing for the last six months. How about 0900 hours? Carolyn usually doesn't finish her coffee before then, much less be ready to go do something away from the RV. I guess she's ready for that new home base.

We headed to the Madison area, and found a store that will probably get some of our business. All the furniture in that store is very good quality, and we would probably buy everything there if they had more selections to choose from.

We have looked at so much furniture at so many stores that we have asked each of them that we liked to write down the pieces we liked, along with the best prices they can give us. I didn't realize that it was going to take this many stores to find what we were looking for. It's starting to look like we'll be buying stuff from at least five different stores by the time we find everything we want.

By the time we finished in Madison, it was lunchtime. Last week, we had tried to go to Huntsville to find our new favorite restaurant, Cheddar's. At that time, traffic was so bad that we got over it in a hurry, and decided to go another day. Since we were already so close to Huntsville, we decided to try to find Cheddar's again.

Success! We found the restaurant, and it was just as good as we remember from the one near Maryville, Tennessee. Service, atmosphere, fair prices, good food and plenty of it. I thought I was back in Texas. We had plenty of food left for the next couple of meals.

When we got back to Athens, I ran (okay, I walked fast, not ran) into the WalMart Mall to pick up a few items we needed. Then, we drove west of Athens on US 72, looking for a couple of furniture stores that were out that way.

At the second store, we didn't think they were going to have anything that we could use, but after talking a few minutes to the owner, a very interesting man who is a self-taught artist and excellent wood carver, we started noticing pieces that we hadn't seen when we walked in the store. As a result, we bought our first two pieces of furniture since about 1990. The pieces we bought were night stands for the second and third bedrooms. The quality is very good, and the prices were outstanding. Now, if only we can have the same kind of success for the remaining furniture that we will need.

After we left the store where we bought the two pieces, it occurred to us that he had some more pieces that might work for us. I think we'll probably double check on that.

More later, be safe.

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