It's high time for a new post! But before you get to read about progress, you need to read this first:

We will begin demolition on the undercroft kitchen on Saturday, June 5, after the Community Meal - starting at 1 p.m. or so. Come grubby and expect to leave grubbier! We need as much help as possible to make this a quick-as-possible process. Refreshments will be served.

There have been some big changes lately, and other less visible work is moving along as well. In fact, we need two blogs to get all the pictures in. The pictures you see here (in no particular order, (because I can't figure out exactly how to order them the way I want!) you see the following:

There is new carpet in the west (front) hospitality area. It is lighter in the center with a darker border. Eventually we'll have seating areas, a small space for selling tickets, fair trade items and displaying brochures, and a display space for library items. Within the next couple of weeks we will be choosing window coverings for the three large west windows in this space.

The little kitchen has generated lots of interest and there are frequent inspections of the progress! The floor tile is an issue here as well (see next post), but all the cabinets are in place and countertop is installed. We will be having the visible cabinet surfaces painted. We weren't planning on this but they look pretty dingy against all new surroundings! The dishwasher and coffee maker are here and will be installed soon. Those will be very convenient for both Sunday morning coffee and receptions in our new space. The coffee maker is "plumbed in" so we will no longer have to drag it to the sink and fill it. It will brew a great deal of coffee when we need it. The dishwasher does a load of dishes in about two minutes, making short work of those Sunday morning coffee cups and sanitizing them as well.

See the next post for more....