Well our big excitement for the week was acquiring a new dishwasher. As you can imagine, most of the time you get something new, it is because the old one is broken. Yep! our old dishwasher was leaking water all over it. I noticed that it had started leaking during the family reunion (why is that whenever we have my family coming into town, one of our appliances break?). It continued to leak, so I asked Greg to take a look at it. He had successfully fixed the dishwasher at our old house, but no such luck here. Any way, instead of paying someone hundreds of dollars to fix our very old dishwasher, we thought we would spend hundreds of dollars for a new dishwasher. We were able to find a stainless steel one that matches our other appliances for a reasonable price so we got it. It does have a little scratching on the front, but we're ok with that.
Greg, chose to install the dishwasher himself to save us the fee of having "them" install it. I don't know how many of you have ever installed a dishwasher, but it is not the most comfortable thing ever. Much of the time is spen on your belly on the hard kitchen floor working in a space not bigger than a bread box. Real fun. Of course, after Greg installed the new dishwasher, we realized it was not the dishwasher leaking, but the hose underneath the dishwasher that was leaking. We also discovered that it had leaked some through the ceiling and down into Greg's workshop in the basement. Sometime in the long future, we will need to replace some of the wood when we redo the kitchen floor. Greg had to buy a new hose a spend another night working on the dishwasher.
Greg got the worst of this one, unless you count taking the kids dishwasher shopping as worse. We are glad for a new dishwasher. I am glad for Greg for using his time and skills to install it.
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Rick would rather work on any thing other than plumbing. Congratulations on being able to do it yourselves. We have a leak in the drain pipe from our sink. We leave tomorrow for a week trip to Moab and Fillmore so that will be Rick's big project when we get home. It is nice having your own home, but it is also hard work!
Me Too!!!!
I hate plumbing with a passion. I recall a time many years ago when the kids were little and we lived in Columbus, Ohio (before the gospel). Our washer was leaking and Gma took the kids out for a walk so they couldn't hear me cuss it out.
Way to go, Greg! You know, we have only been home for a day from our trip, but every place that we stayed on our vacation had dishwashers and now I am missing them! That is definitely something I am looking forward to when we buy a house in Iowa!
It's always fun getting new appliances! (At least for me.) I definitely appreciate having a dishwasher, because my freshman year we did not have one. So far we haven't had any major plumbing problems, but we have had to fix our garbage disposal. Cameron wanted to give up and buy a new one, but I wouldn't stop and eventually we figured it out!
I have to admit that I have been laughing about Lizzy's birthday being March forth all week. I think you should turn that into the New Era for their little comic section.
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