Monday Meanderings - 2.27.2012

Okay folks. I am simply not ready to deal with this!

Fortunately, exactly 24 hours later things looked much better!

There's no icon or symbol on the weather app to show how windy it was Friday, but it was blowing. We came out of Wal Mart with our purchase and the wind scooped up a full-size bed pillow and two or three unused shopping bags and blew them across the parking lot. A good Samaritan stopped the pillow and I finally chased down the bags. About that time a cart with (I hope) an empty cardboard box in it went whizzing by, on its way to South Texas.

And speaking of shopping, our IKEA store, which is already so large you need to stop halfway through and eat Swedish meatballs in order to build up your strength to continue, is expanding. Another 54,000 square feet of store space is being added to the current 252,000 square feet. Maybe they will provide motorized carts, or at least a shuttle bus.

The hotel and lodging industry in Austin is very, very happy about the Formula 1 races coming next November. Piece in the Statesman revealed that the rack rate for a room during that week is 4 or 5 times higher than the week before, and the week after. That's if you can still find a room.

Not uncommon to see street-side vendors selling paintings,  or rugs or tapestries, or sometimes bonsai trees. We passed a guy setting out - according to the sign - 800 count 6-piece bedding sets. I remarked that I found that an unusual item to sell on a street corner. Barb said it all depended on what you had heisted earlier.

And Barb wants one of these banners to hang in the kitchen:

 

Enjoy your week.