Here's our "Poodle Skirt" dahlia, which Dave bought pretty much because he liked the name. It is an interesting flower, much different from our other dahlias.
Yesterday was a day for getting organized. The carpet cleaner showed up promptly at 8 a.m. and gave the dining room carpet a steam cleaning. We had a few Olga-related spots in there. Olga was a very good girl when it came to house training, but a handful of times, when we weren't home and she wasn't feeling well, she'd slip into a secluded corner of the dining room to "do her business." Of course we immediately cleaned it up as best we could, but I'm glad to finally have that carpet professionally addressed.
Meanwhile, all the stuff from the dining room is piled in the front hallway. The carpet cleaner said the rug would dry in 2-3 hours. Not even close! When we went to bed it was still damp, and parts of it are slightly damp even this morning. We'll be able to move everything back today, though.
I also had to print some stuff for our citizenship ceremony on the 13th. The invitation letters we got from the Home Office said we had to bring them to the ceremony, and they had to be paper printouts, not in our e-mail or on our phones. So I went to school in the late morning and printed them there, and also took the opportunity to return all my library books. There were a bunch of books in the book return, including a few that were marked as lost at the end of the school year but were no doubt found in someone's closet or locker or office or gym bag, and I checked those in too.
I also made plans for a little trip early next week, when Dave will be gone -- bought a train ticket, made a hotel reservation. Watch this space!
In the evening Dave and I finally watched the Netflix film "Will and Harper," in which Will Ferrell and his trans-woman friend Harper Steele travel across the country and explore both their friendship and the limits of cultural acceptance in the rural USA. I enjoyed it a lot and found it quite touching and illuminating. Definitely worth watching if you haven't seen it already.
