Remember that a cabinet near the
oven is often
too warm, as is a cabinet on an outside
wall of your kitchen if it receives heat from a strong afternoon or summer sun.
Finally the first week of paying guests arrive: John, the American movie star thinks he has arrived incognito; Winnie and Lillian, forced into taking a holiday together; Nuala and Henry, husband and wife, both doctors who have been shaken by seeing
too much death; Anders, the Swedish boy, hates his father's business, but has a real talent for music; Miss Nell Howe, a retired school teacher, who criticizes everything and leaves a day early, much to everyone's relief; the
Walls who have entered in 200 contests (and won everything from a microwave
oven to velvet curtains, including the week at Stone House); and Freda, the psychic who is afraid of her own visions.
When we upgraded our kitchen 10 years ago, I pulled out our
too - small and outdated
wall oven and replaced it with a spot for the microwave plus some badly needed drawers for storage.