November 20 through November 23, 2013

An unexpected, somewhat necessary sort of impulse buy, had Carlo travel to O'Wich for 4 days. He once again, while on his vacation, went to wait for an appliance delivery. Last time was in May of 2012 when he went to wait for Sears to deliver a much needed refrigerator and this year he went to wait for a new electric stove. We decided to replace the unit since the oven didn't work (unless you consider storage) and only one burner could be counted on. We opted for the standard 30" model since it was 1/3 of the cost of the 20" that we were replacing. Not that we go there to cook, but now we will actually be able to cook a meal in a real oven and can get ride of the toaster oven - that really didn't work well!

Carlo arrived on Wednesday after he picked up his version of cabin supplies. Home Depot's automated service left a message that the delivery could be expected on Thursday between 9:00 and 1:00. Sometime before the stove was delivered and obviously after he arrived, Carlo pulled the old stove out, moved the cabinet out, moved the fridge across the room and moved the microwave/light/candy jar/cup storage shelf . We are going to end up burning the cabinet but until then, it is where the fridge was - behind the door. Home Depot arrived around 12:30 and safety mounted the unit to avoid tipping...the story that Carlo was told was that a child climbed onto an open oven and it tipped onto the child (the outcome was not a good one).
Sounds a little crazy to me but our stove will not be the one tipping the next time the guy tells the story!

GOOD-BYE OLD STOVE!

CABINET BEHIND DOOR

 

FRIDGE AND SHELF MOVED

NEW STOVE!

Carlo stayed until Saturday and before he left he visited with the neighbors at 10:00 in the morning, when he was invited down for a beer. He stayed for a couple of hours. Or was it a couple of beers???
He said during his time at O'Wich he didn't have any visitors, except the ever intrusive, ever bothersome red squirrel, who may be living under our bedroom - or visiting other critters that may be living there...certainly something that needs to be investigated! He claims to have done nothing other than enjoy his few days of vacation relaxing, watching TV, bringing in fire wood and not sleeping well. (What else is there to do there? Oh, I know, plug the fridge into the outlet IN the kitchen!)
I am happy he moved the shelf and the fridge and from the pictures, I know I will like the new layout! Hopefully within the next couple of years the kitchen will be redone to get rid of the remaining cabinets. We will have to put something between the stove and the fridge temporarily - so I am off to design something functional!