Carpet is down

Bedroom before and...

After. 

Closet before and...

after.

A ways from done but looking good.

The carpet install went well. The cabinet quote fellow came on time and measured, planned and calculated and we plan to keep looking. Butch thought the first quote was outrageous until he heard the second one. We have two more places we plan to check before we make a decision. It will not be happening until spring 2013. It will be very high on the priority list at that time though. So after quote guy left Butch squeezed in 9 holes of golf. When he came home we went to the Lowes store in Ames to pick up our GOOD flooring and while there we purchased a bathroom stool. Since the demo, when the old stool had to go, Butch has missed it and looked forward to having the new one installed. We may get it installed this fall but it most likely will not be hooked up to water till spring. I suggested to Butch that we should buy and install a cabinet for behind the stool before installing the stool to make it easier. There have been times when we had our projects out of sync. So while we were in Lowes I saw a dusty cabinet that had a red X through the price tag so I asked the fellow in that department what he would sell it for. So we purchased a $150 cabinet for $50. Sure like it when that happens.

I called Jason as we left Ames and asked if he and Laura wanted to meet us at the Colorado Grill in Boone for supper. They said "yes"! Love it when things work out. Laura has a really cute short haircut. 

The night before when Jason went home after helping us with the shower he called to tell us he had hit a skunk. At first he didn't think the car had been sprayed but the further he went the stronger it got and that was traveling at highway speed. We saw the skunk he hit on our way back to Jefferson and it was flat as a pancake in the middle of the road just east of the railroad tracks in Grand Junction. Any suggestions on how to get rid of skunk smell on the undercarriage of a car? It would be hard to get at it for the tomato juice option. Time and a car wash or 2 may be the only solution.

This morning we were getting rain so Colleen and I didn't get our walk in. Maybe later...

I cropped one of the pictures I took earlier and I like it for many reasons. It is on the bike trail we have faithfully walked all summer.