This weekend we managed to become real grown ups and actually own a refridgerator and a stove.
We bought the stove from Home Depot a couple weeks ago. Austin posted this pic to Facebook:
The installer guys came in Saturday afternoon to hook it up. They fired it up and...it kind of works. The center burner doesn't ignite (until you lift up the metal plate to be like, "what's going on?" and the oxygen flows in and meets the gas and almost catches your hand on fire. True story.) Something about the sparker being too tall or too loose and not getting oxygen. The installer called Samsung and they are going to replace the whole stove next month. Apparently they don't bother with technicians anymore? Anyway, the other burners and the oven work. We'll make do for a few weeks.
Austin is excited about having a gas stove. He likes fire.
In our other endeavor this weekend, we bought a used fridge off Craigslist. Nothing special but it will tide us over until we save up for the next big appliance sale. After that we can probably turn it into a kegerator. It actually fit in the back of the Equinox! Don't worry, we were cautious and didn't get abducted by creepers.
The kitchen is slowly coming along! We have plans to build or buy a pantry for between the stove and longer-term fridge, build an island to give us more storage and prep room, and put some kind of makeshift mudroom station by the front door. The house is great but the kitchen doesn't have the most storage built in. It's nothing we can't fix, though!
