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Passively, patiently waiting for packages. Many, many packages.

As usual, there is much house activity at our house.  Big guy and I painted a ceiling last night and plan to paint it again tonight.  This afternoon, little guy and I have the important job of holding a cabinet vigil.  Sometime between two o’clock and six o’clock, the cabinet truck will squeeze its way [...]

Posted 15 May 2008 † afd § ‡ Comments (0) °

cherry blossoms in the kitchen

Having gone to school midway down the eastern seaboard, springtime meant that ice storms that made you shudder at the thought of walking outside were a thing of the past and that heavy humidity that made you shudder at the thought of walking outside were a thing of the future.  Exam anxiety was in the [...]

Posted 19 April 2008 † afd § ‡ Comments (0) °

from the other side of the kitchen

Yes, we’re working toward a new kitchen.  It’s been about a year and a half project so far, mostly weekends, mostly unpaid labor and mostly learn as we/they go at that (more on the we/they later).  Along the way there has been a baby, 2 new jobs and a bunch of other…activity.  There have been [...]

Posted 15 April 2008 † afd § ‡ Comments (0) °

New kitchen layout

After much weeping and gnashing of teeth, the kitchen layout is now set in stone.  There will be no more changes.
Without further ado, two graphics of said layout.  The top-down overhead view.  Scale is in feet.  This was generated with the abominable Ikea Kitchen Planner software.  A drawn out, ranting post on that horrible software [...]

Posted 14 April 2008 † bene § ‡ Comments (0) °