We decided to not purchase a house and to stay in this apartment for quite awhile, probably until we move to The Cities. This freed up alot of cash and helped us decide to settle into comfort.

Two weeks ago we purchased bookshelves at Ikea while visiting Naomi and Jer. This moved cookbooks out of the pantry and photo albums off the "mantel" (no fireplace just remnants.) This left a pile of miscellaneous cooking mags (more about this later.)

TODAY there was delivered a little larger upright freezer, with the older chest ... (more)