Oven Day
Today the owner of a local furniture and appliance store came to replace the baking element in the oven. Dark-haired daughter swears we should have replaced the dryer first. Jeans shrunk skin tight in the dryer are apparently more important than food to a sixteen year old. On the other hand, she who pays the bills counters that clothes get dry with or without a dryer, while baking without an oven remains a hit-or-miss affair dependent on sunny midday hours. Moreover, one cannot fit a pizza, a blueberry pie, or a full-size sheet of chocolate chip cookies in a Sun Oven. Also relevant is the fact that one oven heating element costs much less than an entire dryer, though more than one would like to pay - $120, to be exact. She who pays the bills also notes that dark-haired daughter has not suggested that she and her friends should forego the mewithoutYou concert in order to divert money to a dryer fund. Nobody is suggesting that. We have our priorities.
Today, then, is officially declared to be Oven Day, and we are celebrating by baking brownies. You just can’t accomplish that with a dryer 
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Squirrely Jedi wrote:
Hooray for baking brownies! Glad to hear that you can bake again. You should tell Dark-haired daughter about people across the ocean that only use dryers in the winter and only if they won’t dry on their own in the basement. I lived with some of those. ;->
Posted on 07-Jun-07 at 6:04 pm | Permalink
Migs wrote:
Are old oven keepers who have nothing in their ovens but books and rags and empty cooking oil bottles entitled to celebrate Oven Day too?
Ah - how I wish I could take a bite of what comes out from your oven! Cheers!
Posted on 08-Jun-07 at 7:52 pm | Permalink
MindSpin wrote:
Squirrely Jedi - Fact is, I don’t miss the dryer much. I don’t miss the food processor I sold at a yard sale years ago or the mixer to which dark-haired daughter inadvertently fed a metal spoon a few months back. I might miss the dishwasher should it die, but it’s not a very good one, and everything has to be so thoroughly pre-rinsed that washing the dishes without it wouldn’t involve much more effort. And it would still be a dandy place to put them to dry. On the other hand, I’m quite sure I would miss the refrigerator and the washing machine. Oddly enough, though I haven’t had much time for sewing in recent years, I do miss having an operable sewing machine.
Migs - I’ll gladly feed you a brownie or a whole plateful of them to celebrate Oven Day or any day at all
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I’ve never thought of an oven as a bookshelf before! One can never have enough bookshelves. I am, however, storing my down comforter and off-season clothes in the defunct dryer for the summer.
Posted on 09-Jun-07 at 2:17 pm | Permalink