I cooked dinner last night. It was a very simple meal, rice with broccoli rabe, tofu and carmelized onions but it was oh-so-satisfying. I think the kitchen, aside from pot rack and, oh, the oven, is pretty much set up. It’ll get some shuffling around as I figure out where I want things to make cooking easier, but meanwhile, it is nice to have one functional room.

We’re going shopping today so Rob can pick up the things he needs to finish the oven–which has a broken door–and so we can get some other household things. My project is to give all the doors functioning doorknobs and latches. At the moment, we have to put a chair against the bedroom door to keep the cats out at night. I’ve also got some shelving to build.

Here’s today’s batch of photos. Some of them are blurry because in order to get the camera far enough away I frequently have to hold it against the wall and can’t see what I’m shooting.

Slightly more unpacked

My brother and Jodi, after carrying boxes of our books up to the apartment declared that they wanted book reports about each of these books in order to prove that we actually needed them all. Further, they wanted the reports written on the seven manual typewriters that they hauled upstairs. My plan is to do them in the order in which I open the books. That’s why number one is a cookbook.

While I seriously doubt that we will complete all of the reports before we all get bored with the idea, here is report number 1 written on the Oliver Visible Writer No. 3. It does not have a standard keyboard, so my degree of typos is a bit high.