Hi Babe!
Had another great night sleep, probably stayed in bed too long, but it's hard to muster the energy to get out of warm bed when it's barely 40 degrees, especially when an unexpected rain rolls in, though it only lasted a few minutes. Yeah, I know, much worse for those north of me, but still, bad enough! Got the horses fed, chores done and breakfast finished before deciding that today I would replace my stove burners today. I had one of the guys from the trailer place look at the problem I was having, i.e. they were flaring up so high it was turning my pots black, and he said they just needed new burners, which are an easy parts replacement. I ordered those online and received them last week, so I decided I would do that today. Of course, one little job leads to another and another... It took awhile to get the rusty screws loose to get the two burners out (I hardly use the third one, and it works fine, so I decided not to replace it), and once I did that, I set out to clean the top of the stove. It was rusty and dirty, so I started cleaning, then putting a layer of Ospho rust remover on it and let that dry. I used a wire brush to clean a lot of it. As I was moving stuff off the counter area, I noticed the seal around the kitchen window was getting bad, so I cleaned that up and resealed it. I hadn't cleaned the knife block in a long time, so I gave that a good coating of Old English. I could still faintly smell the dead mouse from last week, so I did an extra scrubbing down there, then cracked open my Great Stuff and filled the hole that the meeces had evidently chewed through to get into the cupboard. Then I remembered that I thought I had another hole that needed filling under the shower, but when I took the vent off, I saw I had already done that, but vacuumed and cleaned the vent while I was there. Did a bunch more cleaning while I was at it. Finally got back to the stove, took off all the dials and washed those, finished wire-brushing everything down and vacuuming that out, finally put the new burners in, and voila! They both worked perfectly! Job done! Then, since I had the vacuum out anyway, I did the new carpet, to get up all the biscuit bits Lola insists on leaving all over the place, and that I keep stepping on, ouch! Put everything away, opened some mail from yesterday, and generally ended up having a productive and busy day. My usual evening routine, hot tub included, and headed to bed soon! Love you, darlin'! Good night!
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