Re: Moving the story forward

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:51:49 -0500, Joann Zimmerman
<jzimm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It's probably a bit safer to put the window behind
the sink instead of the stove; if you want to open the window, all
you're risking is some soapsuds down your front.

Not to mention that a window over the stove gets horribly, horribly
greasy.

And you can't grow plants in it.

But the window over the sink faced onto the porch, and it's vitally
important that Mother be able to watch the children in the yard while
she is working in the kitchen, even if the view is a little smeary.
(And this kitchen had been a living room before we got indoor
plumbing, so the options might have been limited.) (It was probably
the first gas range ever installed in the house; the effects of
putting the stove under a window caught Mother by surprise. I presume
that the range in the old kitchen had been nowhere near a wall.)

I did get burned once, not by trying to open the window -- I'm not
sure that window *can* be opened (it still exists) but because I
wanted something on one of the little corner shelves in the window.
(They also still exist.) The scar was three or four inches above my
knee, and I was standing on a chair at the time, so I must have been
pretty small. (I hadn't realized that the edge of the stove was still
hot, and leaned against it.)

Joy Beeson
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