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The home repair and improvement projects just keep coming at us!

The kitchen is mostly done.  We still need to put in some base moulding.  All but three windows have been replaced (that's not say they are complete, but they are in).

Some painting has been done, more to be done when the windows are complete.

However, last week something changed that put a stop to all window work and moved work back into the kitchen.

What happened?  The upstairs refrigerator died.  Sigh.

Because the upstairs refrigerator was very large and thus there was no room for it in the kitchen we kept it in the family room.

In order to one day sell our home, though, there will have to be a refrigerator in the kitchen.  That means a wall needs to be removed and a new fridge purchased that will fill the opening in the wall.

So we are down another closet to make room for the fridge,

Our catch-all closet.

 and we have a hole in the wall in the kitchen.

The metal is a laundry chute that will be removed.

We also lost the wall where we keep track of growth spurts.  We'll have to find a more permanent location to use.

How does that relate to the title of this post?  The extra refrigerator, and now main one, is in the basement.  Every time we need milk, butter, eggs, et cetera we have to go down and up the basement stairs.

Some of us have figured out the shortcut of taking food that needs milk added, such as a bowl of cereal, downstairs so we don't have to bring the milk up and then take it back down again.

Slowly we're figuring out ways to be more efficient like yelling to someone who is already down there to bring something else up with them.  Or loading up someone who is going down, with other things that need to be replaced in the fridge.

We will also have to find a new spot to store all the things that now reside on top of the fridge.  Hopefully there will be room above the new one for a small cabinet.

When I told my mom that the fridge had died she, who knew all the work that would have to be done to put in a new one said, "you must have been praying for patience."  How did she know?

More to come . . .


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