Small Pickup

Finally hosed off the screened porch this evening. Even with a good vacuuming, the cushions on the patio furniture still looked a little yellow. Plus they were also getting a little tired looking. Hey, this is the furniture we have had out there since we built the deck back in 2000. A command decision was made to go to Lowe’s and buy some new cushions.

We got about a 1/4 of the way there when Donna asked had we determined whether we needed mid back or high back cushions. I made a U-turn and we came back home to measure our existing cushions. They were 46″ long, high back.

We had pre-shopped online the other day and had picked out some cushions we liked, now we hoped that our local store had enough of what we wanted in stock. We have a big table for 6, a chaise lounge and two rocker/swivel chairs, meaning we need 8 seat cushions and one chaise cushion. We were in luck as they had just 8 of the chair cushions and a bunch of the chaise cushions. We picked this pattern because it is reversible and we could use one side for the six chairs at the table and use the other side for the chaise rocker grouping.

All those cushions take up a lot of space. Mmmm, should we call our friend with a pickup or our neighbor with a pickup. Ooops, forgot the cell phone. I am fond of saying that the Miata is as good as a pickup on a sunny day and now it is time to see just how true that is. I was disappointed. I could only get 5 chair cushions and the chaise cushion in the car, so I had to make 2 trips. If I had a couple of bungee cords I probably could have gotten all the cushions in and on the car, but I still would have had to make two trips because I would have had to go back to get the wife.