I haven't written much about our house lately and that's because we haven't done too much to it in the past couple of months. The holidays, visitors, and stuff took over and so we've become accustomed to sitting in a house with sheetrock walls. I'm sick of it, to be honest, but unless we win the lottery, it's bit by bit. However, we did just purchase a new stove and refrigerator with a commission check A finally received (or will receive by the time the credit card payment is due?!). And let me tell you, praise the lord, because this is what we were dealing with.
A 25 year old oven range with illegible numbers on the dials so that one had to guesstimate where the correct temp was. I couldn't reach the back burners well if anything was on the front ones, and I have a lovely burn scar on my inner arm to remember this ol' gal by. I never once used the top oven, though maybe I should have tried since the bottom wasn't calibrated correctly. Every Thanksgiving was stressful with my MIL and I standing by, peering in at whatever was cooking, wondering just why it wasn't done after an extra hour of cooking? Once we moved in, I just assumed everything needed the extra hour, which it did, but then I usually burned it all anyways.
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| New and calibrated |
Here is the old refrigerator, the same model I had in the house I grew up in. Good bye.
The new fridge is awesome, and so, so clean! It's so big it looks like we don't have any food, my husband exclaimed! (And we actually don't have any food, but I let him believe the vast shelf space was the reason it seemed so) I was *warned* it needs to remain as clean as the day it arrived, which I totally agree with. I just don't want to be the one to clean it.
So maybe now I'll go ahead and try out all the hundreds of recipes I have flagged as favorites online. Why I stay up until midnight browsing Pinterest, drooling over recipes I'll never (afford to) make, I don't know. Perhaps a new 5-burner gas cooktop will inspire me?
