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Good news: our long term HVAC folks came by (not making Christine irritated by some miracle, as she had waved them off wanting to get input from another company) and fixed the condensation drainage issue. Christine is happy with the solution.
Bad news: dishwasher isn't washing any more, no water getting in. Probably could be fixed, maybe, by a willing to fix fix it person, but it is a very old dishwasher. I am pleased someone jiggled the right things to fix it after the house inspection found it not working, but i will be happy to get a very modern dishwasher now.
Depending on how quickly that can happen.
--== MORE NOTES FROM THE LONG WEEKEND ==--
Did cook the last giant butternut squash. Waiting for the air conditioning to be stable before roasting the seeds. Think making the butternut-mac-and-cheese for dinner both put moisture and heat in the house, that meant the air conditioning ran out of condensation storage early last night.
* butternut-mac-and-cheese: YES!
* roasted butternut and cucumber salad: interesting. (Also, bell pepper, a hard cheese, toasted pecans, a few craisins, ancho, sumac, black pepper) Maybe with more salt and some sort of acid
Next - maybe dehydrate the rest of the mashed squash?
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Currently in gladiolus madness. They keep being beaten down by rain so i'm picking them and bringing them in. And the deer haven't been eating the ones outside the fences! The pink and yellow (Priscilla, maybe?) are nearing the end of their bloom. There are a few of the salmon pink glads coming into bloom ("Rose supreme" maybe). Beginning blooming in between is a magenta glad (possibly "Plum tart"). I'd planted them outside the fence and haven't seen many of the flowers (thank you deer) but the glad happy deer have moved on (or i just got to the flowers first). I also dug up some of the bulbs to move in the fence to the no-food for dodder bed, so some have bloomed there.
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* Flour had bugs but cornstarch worked for roux.
Bad news: dishwasher isn't washing any more, no water getting in. Probably could be fixed, maybe, by a willing to fix fix it person, but it is a very old dishwasher. I am pleased someone jiggled the right things to fix it after the house inspection found it not working, but i will be happy to get a very modern dishwasher now.
Depending on how quickly that can happen.
--== MORE NOTES FROM THE LONG WEEKEND ==--
Did cook the last giant butternut squash. Waiting for the air conditioning to be stable before roasting the seeds. Think making the butternut-mac-and-cheese for dinner both put moisture and heat in the house, that meant the air conditioning ran out of condensation storage early last night.
* butternut-mac-and-cheese: YES!
* roasted butternut and cucumber salad: interesting. (Also, bell pepper, a hard cheese, toasted pecans, a few craisins, ancho, sumac, black pepper) Maybe with more salt and some sort of acid
Next - maybe dehydrate the rest of the mashed squash?
--== ∞ ==--
Currently in gladiolus madness. They keep being beaten down by rain so i'm picking them and bringing them in. And the deer haven't been eating the ones outside the fences! The pink and yellow (Priscilla, maybe?) are nearing the end of their bloom. There are a few of the salmon pink glads coming into bloom ("Rose supreme" maybe). Beginning blooming in between is a magenta glad (possibly "Plum tart"). I'd planted them outside the fence and haven't seen many of the flowers (thank you deer) but the glad happy deer have moved on (or i just got to the flowers first). I also dug up some of the bulbs to move in the fence to the no-food for dodder bed, so some have bloomed there.
--== ∞ ==--
* Flour had bugs but cornstarch worked for roux.
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Gladiolus - There WILL be a wall of them here, I love them and always grew them in NJ along a fence. I have the perfect spot for them along the side of the house that gets full sun. Next year they WILL be planted.
Dishwasher - stay AWAY from Samsung and LG. They have some nice features now, once I get my settlement ours will be replaced too, I am seriously thinking Bosch even though we don't use it but once a week it would be nice to have one that's going to last as long as I do LOL.
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I've gladiolus choking a bed in my garden, so getting you those bulbs -- if you are interested -- will be motivation to meet up some time.
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and motivation would be great but I'm not looking at being able to do anything with outside plants for another year =(
I see the knee surgeon on the 19th for a check-in-and-say-hi-so-the-comp-insurance-has-to-pay-more visit and am hoping to get an idea of how he sees the timing of the next phase of chaos going. He was a student/resident with Dr Olson so he knows how he works. Hoping for some positive confirmation
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I'm so glad for each of your yays!
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I will be interested to see which dishwasher you get - mine is staggering along, but needs to be replaced and the last time I started looking online, I got overwhelmed and gave up :D
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Since ours is so old i suspect ANYTHING will come off as an upgrade. I just went to the Lowes website to download the manual and found the sale price we took advantage of yesterday is gone today! Lucky!
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The salmon pink-changing-to-pink glads you sent me are firing in ones and twos in the bed where I have them rather close together :-) I'm glad you kept some and that the deer have eaten fewer of your glads this year :-)
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I'm getting a little scared of how they multiply here.