Dishes by Hand

Hi, It's official, the automatic dishwasher is gone, jury rigged pipes patched up, cut-off or otherwise dealt with. Electrical dealt with as well. Who ever put the machine in sure didn't know the electrical code very well and that's all I'm going to say. We haven't used the machine since last May on our wedding so I don't think we'll miss it.

New shelves installed in the space left by the machine, and they look pretty good. A fairly decent match for the cabinetry that's already installed. Now Margaret  will have space to put all the very large pots and this will help keep the kitchen neater.

Speaking of neater, the closer we get to being ready for V-Day, the more I notice just how much stuff we have in the house that we won't be using. It is quite likely that we will never use some of it again and I don't think we'll miss it either.

Got another load of wood today, this will be a fairly regular task, since wood will be the fuel of choice for cooking, heating water and heating the house. I intend to keep a log of wood consumption throughout the year. I think the final tally will be something of an eyebrow raiser.

I suspect that I will be much better with an axe, hammer and wedges by next spring than I am now. I pretty good now, but will be at least at a journeyman level by next spring. The same will be true of many other tasks which I can do but not well or efficiently. I suspect efficiency will be a major consideration in everything we do, espacially when it comes to heavy manual labour.

Hopefully I'll be in much better shape next spring with all the manual labour. At the very least I'll be able to document all the common aches and pains which trouble me throughout the year and what we did to mitigate them.

That's all for now, thanks.
Ken