Our sink arrived. The poor UPS guy had to schlep what’s labeled ‘team carry’ pkg up two sets of steps.
We have much of the ceiling painted. Some of the walls. We have the broom closet mostly built.
We are gaining weight from fast food and from the fact I’m cooking in a microwave mostly.
We have yet to lay the floor or finish the walls and have no cabinets or sink. Spaghetti water gets emptied into the tub drain.
Food prep area is, oh, about 2×2, meaning the top of the range. Or 8″x8″ if near the coffee pot.
When I ripped apart our kitchen, two saving graces were the secondhand hot pot I got from the local Sally Ann, and a hotplate burner. I plopped them on a card table on the other end of the kitchen for cooking, and could hide away the whole mess when necessary. A folding table might give you some needed prep space if your stove is still operational. Disposable dishes are your friend, even if not ecologically sound.
I’m still not used to my new apt. kitchen space. The microwave takes up half the available counter space. The stove and oven are fine, but the smoke alarm is way over-sensitive to normal heat and cooking from the stove top, so it occasionally goes off if there’s any hint of browning or high heat. This can make frying things a challenge too.
But hey, it’s actually pretty good. I’m still adjusting and still getting things how I want. (And several items are “somewhere” in the storage space, to be rediscovered.) But because that’s so, I am occasionally having to buy things I don’t have because they are “hiding” in storage.
When I moved in, I’d ordered a crock pot for that reason. But after a month, the order was not shipped, and so I ended up having to cancel it. (The supplier, not Amazon, was at fault: they wanted to restart the order but couldn’t say it’d then be in soon. I said no, thanks.) — So I’m without a crock pot still, and will likely order next month.
My wok did make it safe and sound, and has been a real blessing. Also, as I’ve said before, blessings on all those ancient men and women who discovered rice was good to eat and learned how to grow it.
So — Things are still a little wacky here, but overall, I like my new place. — The cats also approve, haha.
(My camera and the BJD crew, such as Robbie, are still “somewhere” in storage, despite looking. Those and my guitar (still unlearned) and kitchen supplies are by far my main goals of what I want most out of storage and in my apt.)
— I hope Lynn and co. are doing OK, now over a week after Hurricane Irma.
Also, I’ve been enjoying the “Townsends” channel on YouTube, which gives historical reenactment of Colonial times, including, often, what people in the Colonial period ate and how they cooked. It’s a great channel, and the guy who runs it is very enthusiastic and presents things clearly and simply. He often has guests on, and he often mentions historical source texts or sites. Worth a look!
BCS (regarding your crock pot)[and all associated salads], be aware that there is a plague of fake third party sellers on Amazon, usually either taking over dormant accounts or creating brand new accounts, posting lots of things for cheap, then vanishing with the money and leaving Amazon to cover you. It happened to me when I tried to buy FortiFlora for my old man kitteh.
I’d donate my crock-pot but I suspect shipping would cost more than it’s worth. (It actually has a zipper bag for porting it.)
Reference crockpot cooking; try any ovenproof lidded pot or casserole in the oven at 215F or 100C. I sometimes use the crock pot liner this way, as it works just as well and takes up less room.
Also Off-Topic: I saw a YouTube clip on prehistoric mammal and bird fauna, Cenozoic era, I think it was. One of these struck me because it was a large critter, not a giant sloth but a similar body type, shown on its haunches eating tree leaves. What got me was the caption that it had been alive as recently as 40K or 35K years ago, around the end(?) of the most recent Ice Age. Therefore, the idea that this somewhat sloth-like, bear-like creature was around while Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal humans were around, and perhaps it was around a few thousand years past that, enough that it might have made it into mythology that long ago, and then could’ve been passed down in legends from there. It was a something -therium, but I didn’t retain what species / genus it was. The idea that isolated holdovers might be what gave rise to our species-wide stories of dragons, elves, other creatures, seems plausible enough. Yet I’m not sure of any specific mythical critter this real prehistoric beast gave rise to. Still, it was sure intriguing to see a beast like that, much like the giant sloths, but not, and think, hey, but wait, that was around as early humans were coming out of the Ice Age, back in Paleolithic times. How would it have been carried forward in the stories that made it down through thousands of years, across surviving human cultures? I can’t help but wonder, too, if a few of the “cryptozoic” creatures (Bigfoot / Yeti, Loch monsters) could be surviving variants of Gigantopithecus (or some such) or plesiosaurs…or some other lifeforms from related sources (or convergent evolutionary forms?) that have (unlikely) managed to elude modern detection. That, and the idea of this giant, sort of upright sitting creature, similar to a bear or a giant sloth, lurking around after the Ice Age, with humans running across it regularly, just really has my imagination fired up. — That, and I really, really wonder what ancient civilizations from before or around the start of the Bronze Age, we have yet to discover, or were lost, but thrived, flourished, in their corners of the ancient Earth. It still amazes me: I hadn’t realized until I did a little looking, that every ancient and modern civilization we know of, every language we know of, all date from around the Bronze Age, and carried forward. Yet that leaves tens of thousands of years, going back to the end of the last Ice Age, of people all over the globe, that we don’t know anything about. That, and previously unknown things about hominid and ape ancestors along the family tree. So much that could have gone differently, or that could have had survivals into early human folktales around the campfire, first, “Listen to what I saw while out hunting today,” and then, over generations, becoming mythical creatures and human-like beings, but passed down through all those descendant groups. … Or who and what might be still out there to discover somewhere, either living survivals, or people and things that made it up until near recorded history, around 10K to 5K years ago. (Yes, I’ve got a definite wide-eyed sense of wonder going on with that right now.)
What’s the time line on the kitchen remodel, C. J? Hope it’s not one of those “it happens when it happens” deals and is proceeding according to plan. Have to laugh at the UPS guy schlepping the kitchen sink up to your house. Now he can say he’s delivered everything including the kitchen sink!
I’m kinda down in the mouth, literally, today after an attack of dentistry, which was greatly mitigated by Kevin Kendle’s “Journey to Atlantis” (music) and nitrous oxide. I am supposed to baby the stitches in my gums for a couple of days, so naturally, I’m jonesing for these crispy crackers I like. I may have some chicken noodle soup later this evening, which will make a nice change from Ensure high protein drinks.
@Blue Cat Ship — Speaking of journeys, hopefully a journey to your storage building is going to happen soon. Hope it is an epic voyage of discovery. I’d gladly take you if I lived closer but I live at the other end of the state, up in the square bit about 600 miles NW of you.
Ah, the part where you can see the weather coming an hour away…and that’s just the fronts coming down from Canada. (I liked watching the t-storms building up over the Caprock escarpment in the afternoons. They didn’t come my way, but they were impressive to behold.)