or How Gorn & I are NOT plumbers
 
Now, this is a true story. It is not as potentially disastrous as the snow story that Bron wrote here. It is about the mess our houses and kitchens can get into as Angelika recalls here. And it probably is bordering on being just a tad out of sorts witchy as Ivonne has been here and here. If you’ve been something of a regular reader here, you probably know about our “flood” from above that I posted on here. However, just months before that, we started noticing some cupping of the wood floor along the island and discovered the ice maker in the kitchen freezer had a slow leak. A large portion of the kitchen floor was lost and replaced but had not been refinished when the aforementioned “flood” from above came down. Don’t you just love those terrific times when life just seems right. The weather’s perfect. The people you love seem happy. The music is just right. That’s how I felt the other morning, sitting here writing. I heard Gorn go downstairs to the kitchen. He turned on the garbage disposal. The noise told you there was nothing right with this part of the world. All semblance of right didn’t do down the drain but exploded out the sides of the disposal and onto our newest laid unfinished wood floor. I believe the offending item that shot through the thin corroded side of the twelve year old disposal that you see above was a cherry pit! The unexpected joys of summer fruit. Umm...would that have been a better title for this post? So, the water is cleaned up, things are removed from under the sink, a new disposal is purchased and put in. Gorn: Turn it on. Me: The switch is in the on position. Gorn: Where’s the plug? Me: It’s not plugged in? Gorn: “----------” There’s no plug! “------------” Alright, the plug is removed from the old and put on the new. Gorn: Turn it on. Hey, it works. No leaks. Next, test. The dish washer. Water goes in and rinsing ensues. Drain cycle starts. Turn it OFF! Water is running all over the counter from the vent next to the faucet. After much investigation, read that “read the instructions”, it is determined that we had failed to knock out the knock out plug to the dishwasher drain connection. Neither one of us is a plumber but we do have a new correctly installed disposal under the kitchen sink. And I’m hoping that Three’s Charm and there will be no more water out of place in this kitchen for a very long time! I promise, the next post will be about food and it will be good to eat and look at!http://bronmarshall.com/?p=151http://theflyingapple.typepad.com/the_flying_apple/2006/07/simple_fancy_de.htmlhttp://creampuffsinvenice.typepad.com/cream_puffs_in_venice/2006/06/and_they_ate_ha.htmlhttp://creampuffsinvenice.typepad.com/cream_puffs_in_venice/2006/07/a_moment_of_cla.htmlD216C560-738F-4A7B-B00A-3923B33F7EF7.htmlshapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1shapeimage_1_link_2shapeimage_1_link_3shapeimage_1_link_4
Three’s Charm
Wednesday, July 5, 2006
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