The Adventures of Geo Bean: Day 14 of Renovations

I had a nightmare.

We were on a mission to Menard's, Humphrey and I, and we were being chased by a Moose strapped into a go-car. The dream was precipitated by something Humphrey told me about as we curled up to sleep.

You'll recall that after yesterday's scare with the brown spectacled dog and Willie rattling at the door, Humphrey was trying to tell me something about his new schemes for redoing the bathrooms. I couldn't well pay attention at the time, but my mind is like a tape recorder, and I replayed the conversation for myself later when my anxiety from the episode had calmed down.

Humphrey had gone out to return to the house to pick up the surprise he had gotten for me. He bought the thing when he went to buy more paint the other day. When he was in the store, he described the most curious thing. A small go-car was moving down the aisle. From a distance, he thought it looked like a street sweeper. A sort of over sized indoor Roomba. Except this Roomba had a seat on it, and in the seat was a stuffie. A stuffie in the shape of a moose, which when it got close to him said:

"Hi! I'm the Menard Moose, your Automated Store Sales Associate. What may I assist you with today?"

Humphrey had half a mind to ask a deeply philosophical question, but he thought better of creating a potential short in the circuitry and remained quiet.

"Thanks goodness Geo B, that you weren't there because you probably would have given chase to the machine and pounced on the faux furred Moose."

It would have certainly been hard to resist and not sound an alarm... so instead of me chasing the cleaner, I ended up with nightmares, of me being chased by moose associate and machine...

But returning to my Humphrey, he was saying he wanted more gold in the bathrooms! That was what he was trying to tell me. He had decided that the full bath floor would be stained with the metal effect paint, and the downstairs half bath would get a special treatment. The surprise he had picked out for me was a packet of special gold dust, that you mix into any can of paint to get a subtle shimmer effect on the wall.

"It will be a little while before we see any Bling. First things first we need to finish getting a couple of plain white coats down on the walls and once the wall is painted upstairs, then we can pull up the broken and breaking linoleum and paint and varnish!"

With so much shine and sheen, from the floors to the ceiling, we certainly need now to get that front door fixed. And I'm nervous about the old locks, and the exact number of keys the priors might have had or still have. The realtor gave us two originals... but of course there maybe duplicates... so now I am trying to convince Humphrey to buy new gold door locks for the back and front.

"Rrgh.. mrrh.. wruff!!"