Last time we bought liv­ing room fur­ni­ture we got a 3 piece match­ing set, couch, love seat and arm chair. Because it is just the two of us, the only piece that has seen appre­cia­ble use is the couch, so now we need a new one. The other two items are basi­cally brand new, so we would like to keep them and just buy a couch. Because it has been quite a while, a match­ing piece is entirely out of the ques­tion. The object we seek will be some­thing that will com­pli­ment what is stay­ing. Not easy, the cur­rent fur­ni­ture is a bur­gundy cloth with rolled arms accented with nail heads sit­ting on ball feet. Not too much out there in that style and to make it nearly impos­si­ble we have decided to get a couch with built in reclin­ers. The sec­ond store we tried tonight had a pos­si­bil­ity, but we still want to look at at least a cou­ple more places.

We had din­ner out with the Mas­ters Miata Club tonight at the Boll Wee­vil in down­town Augusta. The food is always good and tonight was no excep­tion. They are know for their desserts and usu­ally Donna and I decline, but for some rea­son tonight we didn’t. Boy are we sorry. Here is a photo of some of there desserts, our Per­fect Choco­late cake (which we “spoiled” with two scoops of vanilla ice cream) was larger than those shown, it was actu­ally hang­ing off both sides of the plate!

On the way back from Augusta we filled up the Emperor’s gas tank. Reg­u­lar was under 3 bucks, and because HRH takes Pre­mium it was going to cost us $3.17 a gal­lon, but with our shopper’s dis­count it too was under three at $2.97. I had reset the trip odome­ter in Clay­ton when we filled up last Sat­ur­day morn­ing, I didn’t reset it when we topped off on Sun­day, so the mileage since that first fill up read 454.3. I took the last two gas receipts, totaled up the two tank­fuls and got 15.065 gal­lons. That means the MPG for the past five days, which con­sisted of 60% windy moun­tain roads, 25% 2-lane back roads and 15% 4-lane divided high­ways was a respect­ful 30.16.