KitchenAid Comes Home

At long last, the fridge moved into it's rightful place in the kitchen today. This built in fridge with the compressor on the top weighs a ton so, it was very hard work for the 2 guys we hired and in our small kitchen it was a very tight squeeze but, it is DONE!

Coastal Spring

Just spent the past 30 hours winging our way around the North Shore and Boston/Cambridge. Beautiful early Spring!
Here are a couple of pics to wet your appetite. For more check Terra Nova.

Then and Now

Here's a look at "Then" Summer 2006 to compare with the "Now" Below. Yes, it IS the same space.

Painting Down in A's World

So we are back to painting down in A's space; this time ceilings and brick walls. Starting to shape up. Waiting now on delivery of some flooring material mostly. Doing odds and ends in the meantime. When the snow is gone A. will remove and renovate the old metal cabinets in the mini-kitchen. Here's a peak at the bedroom area and close ups of the brick and some of the craggy exposed granite.

Kitchen March '06 & March '07

As of this morning, the kitchen project has been "signed off" on by the building inspector (the electrical inspector having signed off last Friday). Also,how fitting, since it was a year ago today that Baird and I saw the house and put in our offer! Imagine --- a whole year has flown by! Well, it looks quite different. Here's some Then & Now kitchen pics just for haha's.

New Video

Check out Christine Sine's new worship and meditation video based on Isaiah 58. She says many of the pictures are hers, from the years she worked at refuge camps in Thailand. It is a brief but very moving piece.

$2 per Day Challenge

Over at Mustard Seed Associates, again, there is something worth checking out. They have posted a $2 Mutunga Challenge, to eat on $2 per day per person for one week. There is a shopping list and sample recipes. Very thought provoking.

I'd like to try integrate some of these ideas, and the principles behind this, into life in some way - more than just a one week challege. Whether or not any of you, my blog readers, try the actual one week challenge or not, the idea is well worth seriously considering and even implementing in some way. We, as Americans that is, consume so much of the world's food supply and resources in general that it is rather nauseating. Even little steps of change on the individual level could make a huge difference when multiplied by tens of thousands. The power of the web, to get something like this moving in a bigger way is immense.