Melodi
Disaster Cat
OK, I'm posting this here because I wanted to shout this out to friends but I am not about to put it in a public place like Facespy.
After months of mostly, things simply be more or slightly less depressing as in "oh gee more paperwork..." I got a wonderful surprise this morning that was unexpected.
While our kitchen is still not cleaned up, it is finally usable and "almost there" from the two years that my beloved kind of "denned" his wolf self in it and being a wolf ignored things like a flood that left mud all over the floor to dry, and then all that lovely stuff that fell down and into it over time. I loved Nightwolf dearly but like a lot of real hoarders, he just never saw a point in picking things up or cleaning anything up for that matter.
Anyway, to make a long story a bit shorter, we are slowly taking things down to put into the kitchen as we need them and today I needed the food processor I bought in December on sale for about 130 dollars (more or less). It is a good thing I already had a hand blender because I am going to need it to finish off the medieval sauces I am making to take for an SCA event on Saturday (in the 15th century they just had the kitchen staff use a mortar and pestle or a sieve).
But the reason is just amazing, inside the giant cardboard box the cats had made a "fort" out of, we opened it to find a top of the line, complete with accessories (and I think an extra bowl) 700 dollar plus Kitchen Aid Mixer! The sort I was going to save up and try to buy in the Fall to replace the one I currently have that is over 20 years old, came free as a gift, and isn't strong enough for bread dough (it will burn out the motor).
So for 119 Euros, I got a 700 Euro Kitchen Aid deluxe set, and this morning I found the Ex-Large Kitchen Aid food process I had wanted to buy in the first place but they were out of stock last December (possibly forever given the shipping crises) also on sale.
So I probably won't be buying any yarn for a month and I pre-spent my social security money (which isn't very much and is on top of my family trust pension as a widow, so I use it for "extra" or "fun" stuff, usually not all of it though I put some in savings).
Now, if the electrical store will just deliver and install my large appliances that had obviously died partly due to the flooding, I'll pretty much have everything I need kitchen-wise for now (well a new floor eventually but that is a long-term goal) and an electric grain mill (my hands don't do the large hand one we got from Lehmans very well anymore but we are covered if the world falls apart).
The shop electrician refused to install the big appliances (oven, stovetop, dishwasher) because the kitchen was still "so dirty" after 2 months of cleaning) that I don't want to have them out until I am pretty sure they will go ahead and put them in/hook them up.
I may have to invest in one more item (I made sure we have the money between my housemate and myself) in a "steam mop" to go over the floor - does anyone have any experience with this and will they work with really caked-on mud? I simply can't get down with a scrub brush these days and my housemate has a bad shoulder.
Feel free to post experiences, recipes, reports, disasters, triumphs of using stand mixers on this thread (not just Kitchen Aids) - I am so happy to have a way to knead bread that isn't restricted to using the bead baker or trying to not upset my shoulder.
More reports to come when I start using it lol
But wow, I'm still in Good and Happy today (a nice change)
After months of mostly, things simply be more or slightly less depressing as in "oh gee more paperwork..." I got a wonderful surprise this morning that was unexpected.
While our kitchen is still not cleaned up, it is finally usable and "almost there" from the two years that my beloved kind of "denned" his wolf self in it and being a wolf ignored things like a flood that left mud all over the floor to dry, and then all that lovely stuff that fell down and into it over time. I loved Nightwolf dearly but like a lot of real hoarders, he just never saw a point in picking things up or cleaning anything up for that matter.
Anyway, to make a long story a bit shorter, we are slowly taking things down to put into the kitchen as we need them and today I needed the food processor I bought in December on sale for about 130 dollars (more or less). It is a good thing I already had a hand blender because I am going to need it to finish off the medieval sauces I am making to take for an SCA event on Saturday (in the 15th century they just had the kitchen staff use a mortar and pestle or a sieve).
But the reason is just amazing, inside the giant cardboard box the cats had made a "fort" out of, we opened it to find a top of the line, complete with accessories (and I think an extra bowl) 700 dollar plus Kitchen Aid Mixer! The sort I was going to save up and try to buy in the Fall to replace the one I currently have that is over 20 years old, came free as a gift, and isn't strong enough for bread dough (it will burn out the motor).
So for 119 Euros, I got a 700 Euro Kitchen Aid deluxe set, and this morning I found the Ex-Large Kitchen Aid food process I had wanted to buy in the first place but they were out of stock last December (possibly forever given the shipping crises) also on sale.
So I probably won't be buying any yarn for a month and I pre-spent my social security money (which isn't very much and is on top of my family trust pension as a widow, so I use it for "extra" or "fun" stuff, usually not all of it though I put some in savings).
Now, if the electrical store will just deliver and install my large appliances that had obviously died partly due to the flooding, I'll pretty much have everything I need kitchen-wise for now (well a new floor eventually but that is a long-term goal) and an electric grain mill (my hands don't do the large hand one we got from Lehmans very well anymore but we are covered if the world falls apart).
The shop electrician refused to install the big appliances (oven, stovetop, dishwasher) because the kitchen was still "so dirty" after 2 months of cleaning) that I don't want to have them out until I am pretty sure they will go ahead and put them in/hook them up.
I may have to invest in one more item (I made sure we have the money between my housemate and myself) in a "steam mop" to go over the floor - does anyone have any experience with this and will they work with really caked-on mud? I simply can't get down with a scrub brush these days and my housemate has a bad shoulder.
Feel free to post experiences, recipes, reports, disasters, triumphs of using stand mixers on this thread (not just Kitchen Aids) - I am so happy to have a way to knead bread that isn't restricted to using the bead baker or trying to not upset my shoulder.
More reports to come when I start using it lol
But wow, I'm still in Good and Happy today (a nice change)