And the rest of it

[rolanni]

Okay, you lot can design my dream kitchen when I win the Big Prize. I don't know how I've gotten on without all those neat culinary toys. However, I have to ask -- what is this dining room y'all keep talking about?

After bookkeeping writing happened on the new! or at least rearranged! original story for the Yule chapbook. What a difference a viewpoint makes.

kinzel is at chess. A little while ago a large number of police cars and a fire engine went speeding past the house, sirens blaring, and lights flashing. This is not an everyday occurrence 'way out here in the boonies, and it (not to mention the ongoing updates about the massacre in Paradise -- a fourth little girl has died of her injuries) have me on edge. My nerves aren't helped by the fact that the cats keep jerking awake and staring around as if they heard a sudden, unusual sound. They are, of course, just messing with my head, like cats do. But I wish they'd cut me some slack tonight...

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[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

Hm, well if you ever get the chance, read Katherine Neville's The Eight. In it is the description of my dream kitchen. Gas stove and ovens, Industrial refrigeration, wood-fired oven, big wood-burning fireplace, dining table and chairs to one side, sofas and fat chairs by the fireplace, French doors to the snow-filled garden, counters, cabinets, an island workspace with hanging cookware...this "dining room" is what people whose children are not covered with fur must have. If you make children eat at a dinner table four evenings a week, they tend to grow up to be decent citizens instead of criminals -- or so the researchers would have one believe.

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

Dining room (noun): the room beside the kitchen, with the table at which we eat breakfast and dinner at least half the time. Given the miniscule size of our kitchen, also where cookies and other baked goods are taken to cool and chocolate truffles to harden. Why people insist on shoehorning a table into the kitchen and eating in an often hot and messy room is beyond me.

Eating in front of the TV and/or computer is another matter, of course. But certain meals are either too...unpredicable (lap or mouth, lap or mouth?) or too good to eat with half one's attention.

the ground is Shakin!

[stick-breaker.livejournal.com]

check out the USGS. Today Maine had a 3.5 magnitude Quake.

dining room

[noiseinmyhead.livejournal.com]

a place slotted for extra library and studio space once the kiddos are able to make it through a meal without spilling foodstuff over half the world.

[magda-vogelsang.livejournal.com]

Dining Room: What they claim the tiny room next to my even tinier galley kitchen is. In fact, it is taken up by a computer desk and two carts to hold appliances and store things for which there is no room in the dinky kitchen. Like, say, the microwave and toaster oven.