'Beech Cambridge' and a rainstorm

Today I learned that I can go in the Color Tile near Swan on Speedway without a mask and that if you and your husband put three flooring samples down near the door in the real light and in less than fifteen seconds agree on which one you like best, you shock the heck out of the nice saleslady. We put three more down a few minutes later, and those took maybe two minutes, but we both really like the first one we picked. Between that and the stories they told about bamboo problems when we asked, this is turning out to be soooooo much easier than picking tile.

In other news, today we had a thunderstorm over the house, and the wind blew the correct direction so we didn't get any water in the ceiling. So, have a picture of a rainbow:


a wet bird (if you enlarge it, you can see the shiny drops of water):


and a 2 inch (5 cm) long beetle that passed away some time ago but I find too interesting to sweep off the patio:


If it looks like it's missing some legs, that's because I stepped on it last week.