2nd May 2023
Kelli found a buyer for the old cooker, and they were coming to collect it mid afternoon.
Now we had to move it into the garage and give it a good clean.
We still had Larry’s dolly and we had learned a lot about moving heavy objects, namely, get someone else to do it, but it was a work day and our trusty strong person was not around. We tackled this like any other project, total confusion.
The cooker could only go out the door in one orientation which made it difficult to keep on the dolly. I took the full load, and Kelli kept a look out.
Getting it down the small steps rattled my teeth a bit, but we did it, now we had to clean it throughly.
I opened the oven and sprayed this toxic liquid over all the surfaces. We left it for half an hour then I went back and wiped it out.
It was satisfying to see what the true colour of the oven was, the last time would have been when we moved into the house.
By the time we had finished it was sparkling, and quite presentable.
The man arrived, and was happy with it, he commented on how clean it was, we smiled at each other, it was a bloody hard job.
Once this had gone it left a large space in the garage, Kelli cut up all the cardboard from all the appliance packing giving us more space than we’ve had in a long time.
Early evening, Don, a next door neighbour to Kelli’s mother came round to give me advice on how to wire up the oven plug.
He kindly brought a bottle of wine which I opened, and soon my head was happy that he did.
He explained that I would wire both the green (ground) and the white (neutral) together on the same terminal with the red and black on the other two. I’ve never heard of that before, and now reading the installation instructions it made sense.
I guess I will be wiring that up tomorrow.
Kelli made a fabulous lasagna in the small toast oven, you definitely have to think a few hours ahead to be able to cook something and eat it this side of midnight.
Another Lifetime to go 