Look at this mess on my kitchen counter!
Friday night as we were leaving the lax game, we got a call from Mike. A glass had dropped in the sink and shattered. We have Picardie glasses and tumblers from Williams-Sonoma that have lasted us for 20 years. I love them because you can use them for hot or cold beverages and they stack nicely in the cupboard. They practically never break, but if they do, they shatter. Kind of like when a Corelle plate finally breaks.
This is what happened and some of the glass got into the garbage disposal and broke it.
Big SAD and SIGH.
A plumber came on Saturday morning. The fiance of Adrianne's co-worker. For free. On a Saturday.
The garbage disposal had pretty much corrected itself. Thank You. While he was here, I asked him to check the dishwasher. A few months ago it wasn't working right. The plumber then, told me it was the pump. No reason to fix a pump on an old machine. We have been handwashing and drying dishes since then. We keep waiting for the economy to turn around so our kitchen can have an all-around make-over that it desparately needs. My dilemma: do I purchase a really nice one that I would like in the new kitchen? or buy a really cheap one just to get us through? I am out of touch. I thought a dishwasher was going to be in the 2-3 thousand range. When he told me the prices would be about $200- $600 and just to get one until a remodel is in the works I felt much better about it.
Bye-bye to our broken one.
We bought it from a neighbor a few years ago when they remodeled their kitchen for $100. It has been good to us.
I was amazed how clean this space really is.
What we learned from 2 different plumbers: GE's aren't the greatest. They do quite a few repairs on GE's. They are notorious for the pumps going out, and the electical panels going out. Good to know.
Lowes was having an appliance sale.
We narrowed it down to a Maytag, Bosch, and Kitchen-Aid. If I'm getting a Bosch, I want a higher end one, and those weren't in the price range this time for this purpose. I ended up getting the Kitchen-Aid. It was on sale for a really good price, has a food disposal in it, and is stainless steel inside which makes it very quiet. So quiet in fact, that you can hardly hear it. The decibel reading is 50. A library is 40, and a normal conversation between two people is 60. I ended up going with the white outside since all my other appliances are still white and it fits in nice.
I'm glad we got it. With all the people in our house we run two loads a day, and we are all happy not to be hand washing anymore!
Installation was today, and Adrianne got the honor of loading and starting the first batch of dishes. It was fitting since she was my biggest cheerleader in getting it. Hahaha!
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