Some days feathers...

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We've had a couple of pretty bad weeks here at the Lion's Den. First, I was suspecting that my dishwasher was on its last legs, and Sears has given me no satisfaction with fixing the darn thing. But THEN one of my little fridges, one I got to keep drinks in, died, taking out the plug with it! If you remember, last summer the range fried its mother board. Happily, it was a gas range, so even if we couldn't use the ignition to light the burners, we could still use a match. However, it left us using a toaster oven to bake with... I got a new (used) range on freecycle that works perfectly - well, the clock doesn't work but big deal, all it does is tell time, we don't need that. The roomie's nephew rolled the old range out the back door, but then we actually had some rain and didn't want to try and roll it through the mud to the front yard, so the range sat out there for over a month before it got hauled up front. Then last week we put the little fridge out. This weekend, the dishwasher went out, the nephew's next door neighbor had pulled a working dishwasher out of a lady's house because she had redone her kitchen and offered it to him. He snagged it for us. We have 'scavengers' that drive around the neighborhoods and grab any metal they see for salvage, that was fine with me, they can HAVE those broken things! Still, its been a tough little bit with things breaking down. At least we have a strong young man to take these heavy things out for us and a handsome older guy who had replaced the fried plug (and the pantry light) last week in exchange for dinner and some left overs. I hope this is the last thing to go for a while, even though we haven't replaced the little fridge and the oven and dishwasher were free, it is still a pain to have to be without these conveniences... I know I haven't been around much, just finished reading "Out of Oz" the 4th book in the Wicked series.