Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: organizing meals

[Bonnie Fergusson (fergyb2]

    As for meal times, on weekdays we serve dinner at
7pm but Sunday dinners are at 6pm, partly because we
have our HOA monthly meeting about half the time on
Sundays after dinner and it is nice not to have it go
too late.  
    It's perfectly clear that you aren't expected to
clean up if it is not your day to cook, but sometimes
you want to hang out and chat with the cooks of the
day who are cleaning up so you clean up with them.  Or
you may arrive for dinner a few minutes early and
rather than stand around being hungry it's more fun to
help set up/ serve.  The Kitchen/dinning area is a
very social place, and some of us enjoy playing with
food.  Also we all put our own dishes in the
dishwasher so there is a certain amount of milling
around in the kitchen after dinner which is conducive
to pitching in to wipe off the odd counter or two.
                  Bonnie Fergusson
                  Swan's Market Cohousing
                  Oakland, CA



                
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