Presto!

The fairy on our wall has pointed her wand and manifested a cookstove. I had gotten rid of my stove last fall, because I didn’t have room for both a cookstove and a woodstove—and I chose to attempt to be warm, and just use a toaster oven and hotplate for cooking. But I ended up getting rid of the woodstove too this spring, since I couldn’t get satisfactory heat with it. And now a free cookstove I had called about months ago, and given up on, actually manifested today.

My neighbor suggested he could move the counter that’s currently under my stairs, to be next to the stove. That would be superb! Having a counter under an open stairway makes it too dirty to use for food preparation. We’ll see if the change happens. Meanwhile, I’m not sure the tub of potential plants, which I started in order to deal with the roof leak, wants to live next to a hot stove. I’m thinking what to do.

My bug excitement du jour: I was getting ready to wash dishes, clearing out the sink drainplug, when I felt something weird against my hand. Ah, it’s a centipede. A blue one! (We have blue crawdads here, too.) Here’s a video of the little guy/girl. I eventually got him/her to crawl onto a towel and took him/her outside. (Like I don’t have anything better to do.)