Creature comforts

In between our work on the bathroom, we set up some creature comforts.

First, we went on a shopping spree at the Yarnell Senior Center Thrift Store. These four dinner plates and four salad plates were a bargain at $2 for the set. I picked up the Black and Decker coffee maker for $4. The lamp was $10.

I hadn't planned for the rain, so I also bought several pairs of jeans for $2 apiece, including two pairs of Levis. Not pictured are a magazine table for $5 and a chiminea we found at a yard sale for $20.

With our purchases and some things we had brought up with us, we were able to set up a nice "camp kitchen" with a coffee maker, electric frying pan, toaster and a microwave we bought at the Habitat for Humanity store for $25. We even had a little pull-out trash station with a bin for trash and one for recycling.

Unfortunately the microwave didn't work at mysterious times, mostly when it was raining, which it did nearly every day.

But on the last day, when J.C. came up, we installed a hard-wired microwave and conventional oven in a cabinet we had bought at the Habitat store.

I imagine it doesn't look like much, but to us it felt like heaven.