I have an antique metal and enamel table in the kitchen that usually lives under an extended counter edge. I pull use it as smooth surface for pie crusts or to make poteca. Today I moved it beside a different counter and set up one wing and moved the microwave from that counter onto the table top. We'll see how well this works--if my son will slow down enough the first few times through the kitchen to not smash the table in its new position. It isn't in the way, but it does narrow the corridor a little. He's 16. This may be a bull-in-the-china-shop experiment, but I do love having that counter top cleared.

There was a box on the kitchen floor that I've dealt with. Little things sometimes can be the biggest hurdles. It was an old cardboard wine case full of old grocery receipts (in monthly envelopes) and check registers and flimsy copies. Over the last few weeks I shredded and recycled and today I finished shredding and even burned some of it (got tired of shredding). That box is flattened and in the back of the pickup to drop in the paper/cardboard bin down behind City Hall next time I go past.

SRS