Greetings from Ye Olde Pueblo. Today marks the end of pretty much all of the moving in process. Much has been ejected from the park model, and some stuff has come in. I still need a three quart pot, which is the one I use most of the time, which will require a trip to Home Goods. We need to go north anyway, there is a trip to Costco and Trader Joe's in the offing. Leaving the house yesterday and today has been difficult, and will remain so again tomorrow.
Why, you wonder? The Arizona legislature does not have enough to do. Five years ago they passed a law saying that propane tanks had to be located five feet away from all electrical outlets, furnaces, windows and doors. This, after tanks had been in their current locations for decades. For three years no one enforced it. Two years ago it began being enforced. The way it's enforced is that when the propane truck comes out to fill the tanks, they won't do it until the offending tanks are relocated. A nice lady from the RV park came out with a tape measure and concluded that there was only one place our tanks could legally be. Her opinion does not really carry any weight with the guys that deliver the propane. There is no official department of "where should my tanks be located", so hopefully this will work out. Yesterday and today was spent waiting for the contractor who will do the work. Tomorrow they're coming out to run a new gas line and move the tanks. Then, and only then, can we run the gas fired clothes dryer and the furnace after getting the second tank filled. We're pretty dang happy about the electric water heater. People who have the huge tanks have to be 10 feet away from the outlets, furnaces, windows and doors. The lady behind us has one of them, when her tank needs to be refilled she'll have to get a smaller one or put the existing somewhere else.
We can afford to have this work done. Many of the park residents are widows that do not have a lot of money, and this is a financial burden for them. The wealthy legislators don't seem to factor in the human cost of their mandates.
Park models are small, therefore appliances are small. Ours was built in 1988, and the appliances are original. We would like to replace the gas stove with something newer, but they're all 26 or so inches deep. In order to open a bank of drawers without hitting the stove, we can't exceed 24 inches deep. We figured the manufacturer of our range would be long gone, but they're not. They still make 24 inch deep stoves. I think Brown Stove Works dominates that market niche because no one else is building to that spec. They have a terrible website, you have to call to get prices, dealer locations or anything else a customer might want to know. We are happy to know that parts can be obtained, should the need arise. I'm not happy about the presence of pilot lights, but I am just going to have to get over myself.
Here is one of my new enameled cast iron pots I ordered from Costco. It was here in two days.
Lisa Brown is still ahead of Nadine Woodward in the race for Spokane mayor. Ms Brown is a democrat. This is just unheard of in the red county of Spokane. I really and truly hope she wins. The democratic mayoral candidate in Tucson beat the republican challenger by 30 points. Thirty!
Other than this, I have nothing intelligent to say.
it's always something. our propane tank is underground, maybe the only one on the street. they don't allow that anymore and I keep expecting to be told we have to replace it with an above ground tank.
ReplyDeleteI think your vintage stove is adorable. Hope it will keep on truckin'!
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