animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

don’t do this

I bought a new throw rug for the living room last summer. Tilly kept peeing on it so I had to remove it from the room. But the second to the last time she did it, I didn’t catch it (it was a shag rug so you couldn’t tell unless …

it figures

Krisay’s looked at the dishwasher today (my appointment was rescheduled from Friday) and, of course, it’s the control board that is bad. I don’t want to put any more money into it, so I’m just going to use it as is until it either doesn’t work anymore or until I …

dishwasher update

So, after getting my dishwasher fixed last month, I noticed it wasn’t drying dishes. I’m fairly certain this wasn’t a problem before. At first, I thought it needed Jet-Dry, which it did. But the dishes were still wet after that. I also noticed that it wasn’t very hot in there …

another problem fixed

Krisay’s fixed my dishwasher yesterday. Yay! It’s so nice to have it working again, especially since I’m in canning mode and am generating a lot of dirty dishes. For similar reasons, I haven’t been very motivated to cook, so now I can get back on that, too.

one problem fixed

I was harvesting tomatoes the other day and was thinking about what to do with them–salsa, canned tomatoes, etc. I then realized that most of my canning recipes require roasting the tomatoes first and I still did not have an oven. So, I had to take action. The range I …