What Else is New

Today we passed our rough electrical inspection but it was day two of no work while we await word on our plumbing permit. The hardwood floor guy came by to give an estimate and basically wanted nothing to do with our floor, suggesting we pull it up and use tile or laminate. Needless to say that's not happening so instead we're off to find reclaimed pumpkin pine as there was no floor under the cabinets. Interestingly, though the floor boards did appear to be notched for the cabinets so it is not completely clear what came first... the floor or the cabinets? Either way it's staying.

On other fronts, tonight I made stuffed shells in the toaster oven... in an Emile Henry loaf pan (as I didn't buy a tinfoil pan when I was at Wegmans and the "disposable" bakeware that I did buy at Wegmans was not rated for either toaster oven use or for baking longer than an hour (neither of which was clear until you unwrapped the packaging...) The shells actually weren't bad!