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visit, etc
Dec. 28th, 2018 10:49 amSo the Farm-Fam visited; arrived around 3 yesterday, Farmkid gave herself a scavenger hunt challenge through my house, which was very slightly nerve-wracking (what *would* she find under that bed? I honestly don't know, I hope it's not drugs or sex toys, but generally I live a tame life, but honestly I don't know what's in there? as it happens she found a missing pair of shoes, some dust bunnies, and one of the cleaning cloths from my steam mop which I had been looking for so it was nice to find!). For dinner we walked about half a mile to a restaurant specializing in locally-farmed hotdogs, I am not making that up, and met up with Dude's mother, who has heard so much about Farmkid I figured it was time.
Lovely to see them, as ever. And as ever, BIL tried to find things around my house to fix, and settled on the stove, which doesn't have a functioning lighter-- we use a stick lighter to light it. He thought he could replace the igniter, which would be like $100? but he did a bit more research and determined that it was likely another part also broken, which might not be replaceable.
I told him not to worry about it; when we redo the kitchen, maybe we can get a deal on a new stove. The oven igniter malfunctioned recently, and while it's been working fine ever since that incident, I'm starting to think it's maybe not a perfectly-good-except-tiny-detail oven after all. It's secondhand, and apparently quite old, and we have to redo and probably redesign the entire kitchen anyway. So. We can get rid of a probably-actually-quite-broken old oven and start over. I'll start saving my pennies.
And on that note, I just thought to Google whether there's another change in NY State's minimum wage, and yes, there is. It's going up to more than I earn.
( sigh. )
Lovely to see them, as ever. And as ever, BIL tried to find things around my house to fix, and settled on the stove, which doesn't have a functioning lighter-- we use a stick lighter to light it. He thought he could replace the igniter, which would be like $100? but he did a bit more research and determined that it was likely another part also broken, which might not be replaceable.
I told him not to worry about it; when we redo the kitchen, maybe we can get a deal on a new stove. The oven igniter malfunctioned recently, and while it's been working fine ever since that incident, I'm starting to think it's maybe not a perfectly-good-except-tiny-detail oven after all. It's secondhand, and apparently quite old, and we have to redo and probably redesign the entire kitchen anyway. So. We can get rid of a probably-actually-quite-broken old oven and start over. I'll start saving my pennies.
And on that note, I just thought to Google whether there's another change in NY State's minimum wage, and yes, there is. It's going up to more than I earn.
( sigh. )
