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In the image featured with this post we see a small statue sitting on top of a refrigerator and in front of the upper cabinets in a kitchen. The statue is made to look like a large, jolly cook. He wears a chef’s hat, an apron in a black and white checkered pattern and large, black shoes. <\/strong><\/p>\n The statue chef is holding what appears to be an iron skillet. Kitchen Is Closed is written on the interior of the black skillet with white chalk.<\/strong><\/p>\n This chef statue actually sits on top of the refrigerator in our apartment. It was given to my husband as a gift for completing a program at a local caf\u00e9.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n I had written Kitchen Is Closed to indicate that I was not cooking one particular evening.\u00a0 However, the words written in chalk were never erased.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Normally, leaving those words on that skillet would indicate that I was retired from my domestic engineering work, on vacation or simply taking a break from cooking.<\/strong><\/p>\n However, I have actually cooked more in the past few years than I had in all the other years prior to the appearance of that statue.<\/strong><\/p>\n Since I am not particularly a good cook and it is not something that I enjoy, it may be time to retire from cooking.<\/strong><\/p>\n Maybe tomorrow I will take the chef statue down from the top of the refrigerator and set him on the kitchen counter and truly \u201cclose down\u201d our kitchen!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n