Table Shopping

Yesterday, before the trauma of cleaning Doug’s head wound occurred, I spent a wonderful day in Ocala with my friend, Robbi from CCW. She knew that I was looking for a kitchen table and suggested that she take me to a few thrift shops and furniture stores to find one. I was excited about looking for one and enjoying a day away from doing housework as well. Robbi and I first headed to Belleview as she had a few ideas of places to look that had new and used furniture. On our way, we also talked about where to eat lunch. We soon decided to go to one her favorites, a restaurant on Lake Weir, Eaton's Beach Sandbar & Grill. I absolutely loved it. The food was delicious, but the atmosphere was even better. We were seated with a wonderful view of the lake and even got to see a small airplane take off from the lake. 

The rest of our afternoon was spent shopping. The first store, Almost Perfect Furniture, had several tables to choose from that were both new and used. I took pictures of all that I thought that Doug might like too as I didn’t want to buy one unless he saw it. The next store, Censible, did not have any furniture that I was interested in, but did have a few other fun items that I enjoyed thrifting including a Sound of Music vinyl for Meg. Our last stop, Blockers, only had new tables. I liked several and took pictures of those as well. 

After the CCW spiritual retreat at Blessed Trinity this morning, Doug and I looked through all of the pictures and decided that we both liked one in particular. Meg saw the picture and agreed that it would be perfect for our Florida home. Doug called Almost Perfect to see if they delivered to our address just in case the set didn’t fit in our Pilot. We loved the table and found out that they were running a 25% off promotion and a $100 off if we took the furniture ourselves. Thus, we had an incentive to try and make the table fit in one trip. Thankfully, they had men there to help us load it and using our Jenga skills, we got all four chairs, glass table and large base in our car. Soon, we had everything set up and were happy to show our pineapple to our family.