Actually, I did but it did come as a bit of a surprise when I started going through my kitchen cabinets and seeing what a magnet would stick to. So these:

won’t work with the new stove. We’ll move them to the FILA with the old stove until when/if her Dad moves out and brings his own. Luckily, most of these I really haven’t used in months or longer, so, no biggie. And I’ve been slowly gathering cast iron skillets and pots and those do work.

SWMBO had her first session on the new stove this evening for “reconstitute Monday” dinner. She did pretty good.

Called last night to refill my Rx for the blood thinner I’m now taking. Showed up at the Pharmacy in town and got my meds and headed home. Just now, 7 hours later, I realize they refilled one of the “other” meds I’m taking that was due to refill. So, day 2 without the Xarelto; which you’re not supposed to just stop taking. I will be there at the pharmacy at 1000 sharp.

Which I did today. So I’m medicated to specs. Should be good for another 24 hours.

Not a lot going on. Mowed all but the front-lower (or lower-front) yard yesterday. Did the weed-whacking around the house and yards today. I’ll get the trail around the property later. Way later.

Maters are starting to come in. Have one (1) green bell pepper that looks kinda sorta like it wants to grow. We’ll see how that goes.

Freeze dried some apples, nectarines, and burger. Next up: green beans and riced cauliflower.

Painting with colors finally getting started in the FILA today. Light purple in the master bed room. Light green in the “office.” Woodchuck (I think) in the bathroom. (Might be Upchuck for all I know.) All the ceilings are white. FILA is really starting to look like something. Hell, if SWMBO’s Dad doesn’t move in, and I don’t wind up living down there, we could get about $1700/mo rent on the place. IF we were of a mind to rent again. (Both the last Renters turned out to be $ thousands expensive fixing the place back up. Never renting again.)

Last Monday SWMBO’s friends from North Bend drove over and spent the night in our RV. Nice having a near 4000 square foot house with NO “guest” bedroom. One could say, though, that since they (SWMBO’s friends) actually live in an RV over in North Bend, that we’re only doing what we can to make them really feel at home. (But, all kidding aside; they are welcome anytime.)

Tuesday, Independence Day, they (SWMBO’s friends) went to see the Kitsap Steamers (Railroad club) in Bremerton and drug, er, took SWMBO along. I stayed at home cause I don’t really do crowds well. Especially on days where folks participate, encourage, & condone sudden explosions. I think Desert Storm did that to me.

Wednesday was a lazy day. Hot Wx wise so the Dog and I took off all our clothes and spent most of the day outside “doing stuff.” Had to find my sheep skin thingie for the tractor seat! Thing got HOT. I am NOT going to have a vitamin D insufficiency again this year!

Thursday was COSTCO & Burger King day. SWMBO found a couple of sinks & faucets she likes but we didn’t get them then. Next week.

Thursday the Contractor and his helper started painting the ceiling in the FILA but had an emergency at his home about an hour in and left. Suddenly. Suddenly enough to leave a tray almost full of paint in the middle of the floor. Then he called Friday to say that he’d woken up with a fever and wouldn’t be back until Monday. (We found the tray of paint yesterday. Way too late to save it.)

Also had to pull the Old Stove out and disconnect it. Not as much a mess behind the thing as I would have thought and did imagine. Some clean up but not bad. Delivery of the new stove should be between 08-1200 tomorrow.

Friday was Date Day! Was going to put it on hold but my New Stove got here at the crack of 0800. I had no sooner than moved SWMBO’s car than the Really Big Truck backed down the driveway and two strong young guys unloaded the stove and brought it into the house.

So, of course, I HAD to take the 4 connect wire off the old stove and put it on the new stove and plug it in (good thing I already had an electric stove on a 50 amp circuit or we’d have had to put one in!) and push the new stove into the opening for it. And, of course, while I was testing all the “burners” to see if they worked I might as well cook some breakfast since I was running the “burners” anyway. Iron skillet got hot even through the “burner” sized silicone pads I got to protect the surface. Nice.

Stove worked fine! I like it. Did find myself falling into the old (habit?Method?) of moving the hot skillet to a cool burner when I finished cooking. Don’t Have To Do That Now. When you turn the “burner” off it’s the pan that’s still hot and not the surface of the stove. Cool!

Then I took SWMBO to Denny’s for some of their famous Bourbon Chicken. Made stops at WinCo & the Chefs Store (or whatever they call it now) before heading home. Real exciting, I know!

Got a new film/slide scanner delivered Thursday for a project SWMBO has for me. My old one is just too old tech to work well. Like the new scanner. You can continuous feed film strips or slides through it and the actual scan takes only a second or two. Sometimes the leading edge of the film strip or slide catches though and it to be taken apart and moved a bit; but that’s the price one pays for doing it oneself.

I’ve already scanned about 1200 slides and am making headway through all my old film (126, 135, and 110) in order to thoroughly “test” this scanner. Cause I’m anal that way. Still, I’m finally scanning pictures that I haven’t seen in 50 years or more. Connie (above) was a girlfriend whose Dad hated me so much he wrote my Commanding Officer on the USS Dixie (AD-14) to ask, no, order him to order me to NEVER come around his daughter again. That didn’t work as well as sheer distance since I was stationed in San Diego and she lived outside Yuma.

Kinda wonder what all those “girls” in the 1987 Miss Nude Universe contest at Naked City look like now? (But I don’t wonder much.)

Picked up some apples and nectarines to freeze dry. Soon (like September) we’ll make a trip to Leavenworth to buy a couple of cases of those (and more) to freeze dry. Yes, the nectarines are an experiment. Hope it works.