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outdoor living
2003-04-16 - 4:45 p.m.

Don't you just love that phrase? Outdoor Living. No, real outdoor living involves camping primitive in the woods or something. It's just furniture for a deck or patio. When it gets too hot, cold, wet, dry, buggy, loud, etc, you can go inside to the lovely controlled air system in the house. It's more like outdoor visiting.

Patio furniture is purchased. On Sunday we started our search at Target, figuring we'd go to other places from there. We found a set we liked, figured it was in our budget, but decided to look elsewhere, just in case. So we try Home Depot. nada. Then we head up to the Dunnrite Store in Columbia. Closed at 4pm. Bastards. Try another place in Laurel. don't even think about it. Went back to the Target to get the set we liked and they didn't have the chairs. okay, sign from above to use the time to look more. Go to dinner with Rob and Wen instead.

Last night we continued the search. We go back to Dunnrite, don't find anything we particularly like, and nothing in our budget anyway. Scratch that off the list. As we head to the Target in Columbia, we see the Expo Design Center and decide it can't hurt to look there. Same story as before, nothing we liked, nothing in our budget. So, we pretty much wasted a lot of time searching, but at least we do know that the set we finally did get is the best set out there for us. Trust me, we looked. :) So after the Expo strike out, we head to the Columbia Target and almost as soon as I walk up to the furniture, there is a guy to help us. groovy. We get the stuff, box for table, box for umbrella, box for 'brelly stand, two boxes for chairs. We assume that there are two chairs cupped in each box, no big, we brought the F150 for a reason. We get everything in, after doing a bit of packing goddess fu to make it all fit and run to a fun filled dinner with Bob and Laura, riddled with tacky western decor and huge chunks of meat. Alan and I make our way home, unload furniture, and decide to unpack the chairs, because we are impatient people.

Truly impatient people, despite the long search for patio furniture.

We open said box and discover 4 chairs. Oops.

We assumed each box had two cupped chairs, since they are solid construction. Who'd have thought they'd be able to stack when you take the cushions out. Important note for off season storage.

This of course means that since we have two boxes of chairs, we have 8 chairs, but we only paid for 4. So, tonight I head back to Target to give them back their extra chairs, cause I'm a good citizen with a conscious. And what am I gonna do with 8 chairs, since they won't all fit around the table anyway. And it's unethical.

Meanwhile, Alan plans to put together the table and umbrella, so that when I get back tonight the patio should be populated with patio furniture, fittingly enough. w00t.

I looked for a picture so that I could show everyone our new furniture, but it appears it is not on the Target website. eh.

So, instead I leave you with these two funny cartoons I dug out of my old mail. (I should really clean up my inbox...)

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From Wendy, one of many owners of cat infested houses:

And from Tom, continually amazed by the PPG phenomenon:

Toodles!

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