Julie Bove wrote:
> The new microwave is great! My only complaint is that the light does not
> come on when you open the door. Only when you are cooking. Not such a big
> complaint I guess. But it is smaller than the old one. I wanted smaller.
> We mainly only use it to reheat a plate of food. Although once in a while I
> will do a casserole in there if we want it quickly and don't care if it
> browns on the top. I checked the casseroles that I kept and several will
> fit in there so it's all good. Plus the red color looks great!
>
> After cleaning off the shelving unit that is in the dining room that had
> contained food that wouldn't fit in the kitchen, like cereal, I had a whole
> empty shelf. I decided to move my remaining two Crock-Pots and my stand
> mixer to that shelf. That freed up the "dead" space where the Crock-Pots
> were. They were under the microwave. So I moved a little wire shelf under
> there and it now has the jars of nut/seed butter underneath and some little
> things on the top like gum and mints.
>
> The mixer had been almost in the corner. There is actually a little stand
> in the corner with a drawer in it and on top are things like my scale and
> some odds and ends that are being stored in the giant metal bowl that I use
> for big pasta salads that I take to potlucks. We have all kinds of little
> decorative toothpicks and those are in there. Angela likes to decorate my
> husband's food. She has some that are goals and footballs for use during
> football game meals.
>
> Anyway... I now have some additional free space on my counter top! And I
> really needed it.
>
>
Progress in that regard is good. I have started getting my
ephemera off a portion of my counter.