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Good morning Tuesday!

I hope your weekend has treated you good.

Here in Restonland, it has been a gray one, mostly rain.

Kind of damp. Kind of boring weather, if you will.

But we did have a very nice Friday evening enjoying dinner on the deck.

Peter grilled hamburgers and it feels good that the deck season is back in session again.

The rain does not bother me that much. May can be a very tricky month around here. Some years it gets so hot, other years it is cooler with lots of rain. So far it seems like a fairly gray month. Well, we’ll see going forward …

 

Hanging on the deck on Friday.

Peter and I took off for IKEA on Saturday.

Peter’s office is located upstairs, but at times during the summer it gets so hot where he sits. The bedroom he uses as an office is sort of “open to the elements”. With that I mean that the entire floor space does not have a room underneath it. The floor space is the roof over our front stoop.

So, it gets super hot in Peter’s office during the summers. The AC is not that effective in that room. In the winter time it is the opposite, it gets ICY cold in there. But with the use of an effective heat fan, it is bearable.

So, we got Peter a desk, an office chair and some other things at The Mothership on Saturday. The new desk is good, it looks more like a table than a desk. In the wintertime, we can stove it away in another corner in the rec room (the basement room/den/ family room. Whatever you call that room …. ).

It will be perfect for Peter to sit there and work while it is excruciatingly hot outside. It’ll be a life saver.

He can go back and forth between his real office upstairs and the “summer office” as he sees fit. The room in the basement is always cold. Every summer, during cruel heat waves, Peter and I sleep there as well. We have two pull out couches there, and they do come in handy at times. It is good that the basement room will get some use going forward. Truth to be told, we never, ever use that room otherwise.

Oh yes, of course one has got to have lunch at IKEA while one’s there. That is the law, haha.

And of course, it HAS to be meatballs … I like IKEA’ meatballs, I really do—YUM.

 

IKEA meatballs, YUMMY!!

On Sunday, and yes this is nuts, we went back to IKEA again. But not the one in Woodbridge, VA where we where on Saturday.   No, we went to the one in College Park in Maryland. The reason for that is  a print that we like, and they did not have said print in stock at IKEA Woodbridge so we had to head to the other one to pick up the print we wanted. 

IKEA two days in a row … I tell you what, haha!! No we did not have meatballs on Sunday again. We had a late breakfast at a fantastic (and unassuming) little diner near The Mothership. The food there was awesome. I picked to have an omelette. OOO it was so tasty.

 

This omelette was awesome!!

The rest of the weekend we ran some more errands, and we hung out here at home.

Tomorrow, I will take you back to California again, it is time for the third travelogue from our trip out to the west coast. 

Have a good Tuesday!!!