Alright, when we started this weekend, the house was winning 3-0. I have, however begun to turn the tables. To begin with, I have to tell you about a tradition at my house. The tradition goes like this….whenever my wife goes out of town overnight, such as is the case this weekend, the first meal made is chicken enchiladas with a white sauce. My wife is the ONE person I’ve ever met that doesn’t like my chicken enchiladas so when she’s gone, you can be assured I will be stuffing down enchiladas like a rabid monkey in a banana tree. (The second meal is baked Mac-n-Cheese with a tomato sauce. Another dish that only my wife has an aversion to.) What does this have to do with my oven being broken? Well as you can guess I was in danger of not getting my enchilada fix, when all at once, my Cub Master training kicked in and I had a brilliant idea. I quickly went to the garage and found our Dutch oven that we use for camping. I then made the most glorious chicken enchilada pie and put it in the Oven which I then put on our grill and kept the heat at around 375 degrees.
Thirty minutes later I was shoving down enchilada pie down by the spoonful (spoons allow you to get more in a bite than a fork.)
As ingenious as the dutch oven idea was, it still doesn’t get that oven fixed. This is the heating element in the bottom of our stove. As you can see rogue brownie mix dripped onto the element and caused it to arc-weld itself and break....
To fix this, I turned to the internet. I’ve been able to prolong the life of some of our appliances by finding parts online and fixing them myself. In this case I was able to go to Sears’s parts website (via Google…what did we ever do before Google?) and found a replacement heating element which will arrive on my doorstep next Friday for me to install at my leisure. Now I know that you really can’t call that a win, but I have to think it at least drops the score to a more manageable 2-0 with the house in the lead. Next step is to replace that water heater. This was on the side….
I try not to let the man keep me down. I mean how do THEY know how many people it takes to install a water heater? It’s not like they’ve done tests or even installed one of these before…..
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