New Stove and Hood Installed!, originally uploaded by Colonel Kearns.

You remember that fire we had? Most all traces are gone now. For over a month we had no stove, it just takes a while to communicate and order and install, etc. Today, we are able to cook a full range of items once again. No longer are we stuck with just deep fryer, rice cooker, crock pot, microwave, indoor grill, outdoor gril, toaster, and bread machine. Oddly only the crock pot was purchased during the "stove outage" and even during the stove outage the bread machine didn't surface.

What does this mean? we're back where we were a month ago, and moving forward from this point to get the house ready for "company". Now that we have the space we hope to eventually get some entertaining done, but we're still lacking a bit of furniture in order to finish off the unpacking.

What does this mean more immediately? Fried foods are back! Fried rice, fried eggs, sauteed anything, etc. And we sure did miss it.

Also the new hood is much nicer than the old one. Quieter, safer, better all around. If I had known that this particular "economy" model was so cheap I probably would have just bought it anyway, it's that much better.

If you click through to Flickr I'll make some more specific comments like the placement of the replacement salt cellar that was purchased, and perhaps some other bits that I'm sure people are curious about.