Rob continues to work on cleaning the stove and, to our surprise, the stove is white. I honestly thought it was cream. We’ve discovered that the wire brush on my dremel tool is good for getting the carbonized grease off–it’s like dentistry on the stove. I’ve got the shelves clean and am starting to unpack the kitchen. It’s a lot more open than our kitchen in Portland since we just have shelves and no cabinets, so I’ll have to figure out how to deal with dust on the things I don’t use as often. I’m not so excited about having to dust stemware everytime we have people over. A visit to Chinatown is in our future, I think.

We have enough stuff out of boxes and put away now that we’re starting to get a sense of how things will feel. I think it will be a pretty open floor plan. I meant to take photos before I came down to the coffee shop, but I forgot. Next time, I promise.

Oh. The other really, really big surprise–our bedroom is quieter here than in Portland. I know! In Portland, we were on a bus line. Here, our windows face into the airshaft or an alley so we don’t get any direct traffic noise. It’s rather astonishing. The biggest problem with the bedroom at the moment is that it gets the morning sun. It’s the only time we get direct sunlight, so we’ll have to figure out some serious shades in order to be able to sleep in.

Yesterday we dropped off some puppet supplies with Emily. I say “dropped off” but it was really a three hour adventure involving having to back the truck up to get it into a gas station, getting trapped at an intersection by a street fair, and trying to get around bridges that had a 12′ clearance while we were driving a 12′6″ truck.