Thursday, February 18, 2021

Is That A Beautiful Stove Or What?


The stove is in the house! 
Okay. So it's in the hallway. It is only feet away from the kitchen! Feet, I tell you! The range hood has been delivered and Mr. Moon is working on that and the backsplash now. He ordered a piece of stainless steel to go behind the stove and despite careful instructions as to the dimensions, it was cut wrong and he had to get another done and go to town to pick that up. Nothing goes perfectly in these situations and everything takes longer than it should. And that is just the way it is. My house feels topsy turvy with boxes and packing material spilling out all the way to the dining room and my kitchen certainly is but I'm almost certain that eventually, it will all be back to normal or rather, a new normal with that beautiful new stove. 

Mr. Moon had to pull the old stove out of its nook to work on the backsplash and hood. I wasn't completely horrified to see what was there. 


I sort of love that old linoleum. Anyway, I cleaned it all up and in my efforts found a few pieces of cat food, two vitamins, a bead, an M&M, two seashells, a piece of bacon, and one dead roach. Also a religious icon that I do not remember getting. No mice shit. No rat shit. So, not bad. Not bad at all. I cleaned the wall with Kaboom! which is probably incredibly toxic but it works like magic. The wall looks brand new at this point with hardly any effort. I cleaned the floor with Fabuloso and vinegar, of course, and all will be ready for the new cooking beast. As Mr. Moon pulled out the old stove he said, "I just can't figure out how that Thermador can weight six hundred pounds while this one only weighs fifty."
It may be made of lead and bricks. I don't know. 
Tomorrow looks to be ignition day. A guy from the gas company is coming by to convert the stove from propane to natural gas and he'll hook it all up and make sure everything's running. 
Should I soak my pintos tonight? 

Last night when I took my shower I vowed to try and do something about the mildew on the floor in there and so I tackled that today. Speaking of magic potents, I have found nothing that works on mildew quite like toilet bowl gel cleaner with bleach. I've mentioned this before. So I applied that stuff to the mildew and let it sit for about an hour and then scrubbed. It's not exactly perfectly white nor will ever be but it sure does look better. If you try this at home, you may want to wear gloves, which I did not, because now my hands reek of bleach. They sure are clean though!

Raining, raining, raining. This morning, before it started up again, the air was so wet that every window of my house was made opaque due to condensation from the house being cooler than it was outside. And actually, even the walls of the house are still damp. Just the way it is. 

I'm sure that we've all seen Ted Cruz on his way to and from Cancun. Haha! What a shithead. How to make friends and influence people. Leave everyone in your state behind with no power or water or food on the grocery shelves and quite literally freezing to death to just take a teeny-tiny little jaunt down to the Mexican Caribbean. Why not? I love how he's saying now that he just went down to be a "good dad" to make sure his family got there safely and now he's on his way home. 
THEN WHY'D YOU NEED A ROLLY SUITCASE, TED? 
As if the fact that since your daughter can't attend school due to the historically horrific weather, you and your wife decided to take her and some friends down to where it's warm and sunny while you're telling people to stay off the roads and stay home and "hug your children" isn't going to make people hate you even more than you already do. 

I do not think he's making good choices. 

Mr. Moon says he should be finished with his project around midnight. 
Hmmmm...
Every few minutes he calls me to come in and hold something. He's got a bad shoulder and I've got a bad wrist but by golly, we're going to get this done! 

Check in tomorrow to see how we're coming along with it all. 
If you want to. Only if you want to. 

Love...Ms. Moon









33 comments:

  1. Thank you for the toilet bowl gel cleaner tip. Do you have any idea how to clean yellowish stains from vinyl flooring? There is some staining inside a utility closet and I have tried everything. We inherited the stains so do not know what it was.

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    1. No idea, JanF. I'm not very good at cleaning of any sort, truly. I'd say that if stains are inside a utility closet, just ignore them. I would.

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  2. This is so exciting. And you answered my question before I asked it, about whether it was gas. Vital for cooks. More responsive than electric.

    Happy Cooking on your new Center of the House!

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    1. Thank you, Boud! I know that you understand fully.

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  3. Oh my God, i LOVE that stove! Total stove envy, here! I saved for months to get my LG with a blue interior. It’s well loved and well used, too. I love to bake.
    Ted Cruz.. I don’t have words. Despicable, stupid, ignorant bastard, ugly inside and out. I guess i had a few words after all. I know there are more but i better stop before my head blows off.
    Enjoy dreaming about that beautiful stove being installed!
    Debbie

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  4. That stove is the MerMer Cruzer! Pancakes coming up.

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    1. I can't WAIT to make pancakes on my new stove!

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  5. Lots of delicious meals ahead!

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  6. It's been almost fun reading about and making fun of TC today. I am so looking forward to you cooking up your awesome meals in that oven and on that stove!

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    1. You're right- it was sort of fun. A wholesome form of entertainment for the masses!

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  7. Your new stove is indeed beautiful. I had my oven and hob professionally cleaned about 6 months ago, and it looked like new again. It is gradually getting back to normal with burnt on bits on the gas burners on the hob!

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    1. As one always says when one gets something new- I'm going to keep this clean!
      I'll try.

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  8. Congratulations on the beautiful new stove! I'm sure thousands of delicious meals will be cooked on it.

    Ted Cruz is a vile piece of shit. But we knew that already.

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    1. Ted Cruz IS a vile piece of shit and also sucks donkey dicks. Don't tell anyone I said that.

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  9. Pretty stove!!! Kudos to Mr Moon for his hard work!

    Cruz is a jerk. And stupid if he didn't think that folks would find out his original plane reservation was set for him to return on Sunday. Stupid and arrogant. Ugly combo.

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    1. Mr. Moon is such a hard worker. He's amazing.
      Unlike Ted Cruz.

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  10. Love the home ec tips! And we too need a new stove, but there is so much construction around our building, as they repave all the walkways and parking lot, that we've decided to wait until a delivery truck can find its way to us. I read in an Atlantic piece that worse than Ted Cruz running away to Mexico was the fact that he couldnt think of any way in which he could be helpful to the people of his state. Meanwhile AOC has raised a million to feed and shelter the people of Texas.

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    1. Oh gosh. It would never occur to me that sometimes getting a large object into an apartment in NYC would depend on construction but of course it would!
      Hurray for AOC! And Pete Buttigieg too! Now- will the voters remember how Democrats acted versus how Republicans acted during the next election? We shall see.

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  11. That is a nice looking stove and you are going to have so much fun with it. Can't wait to see it all in place.
    Cruz!?! I wonder about the people that could vote for him?!!

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    1. I am going to have fun with my stove. That is the truth.
      Probably the same people vote for Cruz that voted for Trump.

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  12. That a beautiful stove isn't it (and I love the hardwood floor too). As for Cruz let's hope he's not going to be another Teflon Don, where every bad deed of his just slips straight off him!

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    1. That floor is over a hundred and sixty years old. Original wide pine planks. I love it.
      I've been wondering about the fallout from Cruz's bad choices myself. Will people remember or not?

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  13. That Ted Cruz thing was priceless. As you said, what an asshole. I love the "being a good dad" excuse. Like his wife wouldn't have been capable of taking the girls down there while he stayed behind and actually DID HIS JOB?!?!

    I can't believe that stove weighs 600 pounds! How is that even possible? And I'm sure you and Mr. Moon considered this, but could it compromise the structure of your kitchen? The floor joists (I think they're called) and that kind of thing?

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    1. PS -- It IS beautiful, though, that's for sure. Show us the religious icon you found under the old one!

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    2. But his house was cold, Steve! So why not go down to Cancun?
      He is seriously fucked up in the head.
      I asked Mr. Moon about the heaviness of the stove and if would be a problem. He said that it would not. And I'm going to trust him on that.
      I'll take a picture of the little icon I found.

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    3. If Mr. Moon said it won't be a problem, I'm sure it won't. I have complete faith in his judgement!

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  14. I won't even comment on Ted Cruz.....but I will say that your new stove is a thing of beauty! I hope it performs as beautifully as it looks!
    Susan M

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    1. Oh Lord, Susan. I hope it performs well too because it was not cheap. I want to ADORE it!

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  15. How in God's name could Cruz blame his children for the trip? What kind of a louse do you have to be to blame children--your OWN children? The man is despicable and deplorable.

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    1. But Susan, he was just trying to be a good daddy. Right? What kind of a daddy would let his wife and daughters go to Mexico by themselves? We know what kind of people they have down there, right? Which is why we need a wall.
      Hell. Mexicans need a wall to keep us out.

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  16. that fucker Cruz. his return ticket was originally for Saturday. so much for his overnight trip to make sure his family got there safely. apparently he thinks his wife was incapable of that.

    new stove! we could use a new stove but we need a new washing machine more urgently.

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  17. I clicked on the picture of the stove and I could’ve sworn it said thermonster. :)

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