Re: Snow on the way

I wish my mom had something that nice. I'll be cooking Thanksgiving
dinner for 9 in her mobile home kitchen, with the world's smallest
oven. A 16-pound turkey goes in, and nothing, absolutely nothing,
else will fit until the turkey comes out. It's quite a challenge,
trying to have everything ready at the same time. I do a lot of stuff
on the stove top and/or ahead of time. I've done it enough times
that I'm pretty used to it by now, but I sure would love to once cook
Thanksgiving in a kitchen with two ovens.

Margie, glad to be with family even in the world's smallest kitchen

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 21:05:08 -0600, "Maureen"
<maureen.galvin@comcastdotnet> wrote:

>when we bought this house, all the appliances and things like furnace, water
>heater, central air unit, were just about original to this 40+ year old
>house. The inspector said - life expectancy - don't expect more than a year
>out of any of them. So I took out the home warranty.
>
>The fridge promptly died <thank you thank you> and I was able to purchase
>one of those armoire styled fridges and I love having the freezer on the
>bottom and the double doors.
>
>I jumped for joy the day the furnace stopped working when I turned it on
>thinking WooHoo, I'm getting a new furnace. NOT!! Damn thing had a reset
>button on it and the tech showed me how to reset it.
>
>The air unit is rusting through and there are actually holes in the casing,
>but the damn thing just keeps on running and cooling.
>
>Of course they are not the most energy efficient units I'm sure and my gas
>and electric bills are outrageous, but I don't have $5k + to replace them at
>this time so I cross my fingers and pray for a quick death.
>
>Now my stove, I love my stove. It has six burners, the griddle top thingee
>for the one side, two ovens, two broilers. Does a great job for holiday
>parties. They don't make these any more. When the ovens both died and two
>burners, I called the warranty people who promptly sent out a repair person.
>They offered me $600 or repair it ($50 service charge for each call). The
>repair guy said don't be stupid - just fix it. When it dies they have to
>replace it with a like kind - Viking, or give me quite a sum to replace it
>with something else. Cost him almost $700 to fix it and it works like a
>charm. It is just ugly as sin. We like to call it well-seasoned like a
>cast iron griddle LOL!!
>
>Honestly, I can live with it. I just want a new furnace and air conditioner
>at this point. And when the water heater dies, I plan on adding a second
>water heater to the house cause with two teenage girls who have to shower
>every time the phone rings (yep, just about every 10 minutes it seems) we
>are sorely lacking in the hot water department too.
>
>Oh well.
>
>Maureen
>
>"Tallulah" <tallulahbankrupt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:1132195896.057509.26190@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Might take a while...if you want them to die, they never do. I've been
>> waiting 9 years for a refrigerator to die - DH had it when we got
>> married and we've moved it from house to house...thousands of miles
>> between. It's probably got more miles on it than my Explorer. Stupid
>> thing WILL NOT die! It doesn't even have an ice maker. He won't buy
>> me a new one until it dies. Anyone know how to ...Kavorkian-ize it?
>>
>>
>> Maureen wrote:
>>> GRRR!! LOL!! Damn appliances just wont die for me. I abuse them, I use
>>> them, I abuse them and still they just keep firing up. I'll probably
>>> spend
>>> the equivalent amount keeping this home warranty every year that I would
>>> if
>>> I just replaced them on my own, but...... I cant afford a Viking on my
>>> own
>>> :)
>>>
>>> Maureen
>>>
>>>
>>> "LizzieB." <blahblah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:3u276dFutiu5U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> > Maureen wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> BTW, if she needs or wants off the base for Thanksgiving, I have room.
>>> >> I've got about 20 people coming so a couple more wont hurt
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > You're just out to abuse your stove so badly your warranty will replace
>>> > it
>>> > with a Viking.
>>
>

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