The quilt that is our kitchen

My first client is at 3:00 so I am sitting in my old place at the dining room table, surveying the ducks, and gazing on the new kitchen.  A friend observed (thanks, Rick!) that we were piecing the kitchen together like a quilt.  That seems apt.  We are piecing things together.  With all the stainless steel it comes as a surprise to me that none of the surfaces are magnetic.  This is probably a good thing, but it does take some getting used to.

The quilt that is our kitchen

Has the coffee pot and toaster

Pieced in.

There are school books

On the counter.

Oh yes

I remember this.

The quilt that is our kitchen

Has no magnetic surface.

We have moved

All the necessary notes

To the playroom door,

The one that leads

To the cold room.

It used to be the garage.

Now it stores my old office,

The theological books,

Three old computers.

The door is the only steel surface

We have left

For the important notes

Which used to go

On the side of the refrigerator

Or on the steel front door.

Now we have one door

For the important clutter:

The necessary school notes,

The blood tests three months hence,

Assorted pictures.

The quilt that is our kitchen

Requires order.

No magnetic surface.

None at all.