The match game

This picture illustrates at least two things:

-- First, that we're cursed by an incredible amount of dust around the house. That baseboard is pathetic. We're attacking the problem this weekend.

-- Second, that we're blessed by dumb luck on color.

The red we chose for the den and master bedroom was an homage to the shade that Robert's best bridge partner, Carolyn, had painted her living room. (I think of it as our own Jungle Red, but that's mostly when I'm channeling Norma Shearer.)

Roy the painter still has to roll a coat or two to get it covering properly (red is devilish in more ways than one), but Dennis the electrician showed us chips of available outlet covers -- and dang, if the color Lutron calls "hot" didn't match our walls.

I dare you to find much of a difference around that plug. Top outlet, by the way, is switched; bottom is always-on.