Charmion, I asked him how he cleans the rugs - it's an interesting process and he had lots of videos of stages of it on his phone. Pressure washing, a special soap meant for rugs, and a huge roller ringer (like on the old washing machines) followed by drying outside and nights in a warmed space, alternating until it's completely dry. And he had some very tempting rugs for sale there in the shop. (He discourages browsing - there are stacks of rugs that are large and very heavy. "I'm not moving rugs unless they know the size and color they're shopping for.") No kidding!

I have a couple of social events coming up at the end of the month, and my COVID booster will have had time to get up to full strength. One event will be outdoors, so no mask, and one is indoors (I'll still go masked). I'm curious to see if the vaccine is a good match for the circulating versions of this coronavirus but I'm not wanting to catch the thing to test the science.