Kit and Carol on the Road

Some of the battle of moving to a new place is getting used to new appliances. (That we didn't choose) The washing machine is running now and makes a huge racket. It's a humongous machine--if we separated colors and whites we'd have to wait 2-3 weeks. The oven and microwave are pretty straight forward though they take up a lot of potential cabinet space. Our stove is totally alien--one of those slick black things with no visible burners. You have to turn the stove on to see where the burners are --which seems awfully inefficient. Our refrigerator is totally oversized for 2 people but like all new refrigerators it has teeny tiny vegetable bins--and you have to store anything tall in the door. The freezer is a drawer at the bottom which I can barely open. The dishwasher is a pain and takes up more potential cabinet space. I left the dish pan and rack behind but we end up washing some dishes because we only have one of many of the things we often use twice a day. We don't have cupboard space for more dishes.
We just bought our own moderate sized appliance: a new wine cooler. Too hot here to keep wine in the garage and no basement here. Now we have to buy more wine :)

Carol Harma--from my iPad