Deja Vu and a Random question

Ok people...we have been here "before" when I lived in another state...in another house but the same question.

The Dining Room.

I wasn't going to paint this room. The stripes weren't bad and probably one of the better painted rooms in this house. Now I'm not saying that I am jumping on the paint wagon and heading to the paint store tomorrow...but I found these curtains that I liked but not so much with the stripes...so what color to paint the walls...and eventually the carpet will be removed and wood floors put down. Can ya picture this in your mind? I have a hard time with that...I need visual.

Suggestions. PLEASE!
(I think you can click on the pictures to make them larger so you can see the pattern.)

NOW for the random question.

Saw this one night last week when I let the pups out. Didn't see it when I was sweeping the covered porch over the weekend. Tonight when I let the fur kids out...there it was again. What is it? I guess I am not as country of a gal as I thought I was.