[Magdalen] Appliances was Medical update (& honestly, getting' a little scary).

[Jay Weigel]

We have stainless, purchased before I moved here or we wouldn't. I hate the
stuff. It's impossible to keep clean in a hard water area.

On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm perfectly happy with white, but my daughter and her partner shopped
> for me at Sears and, therefore, I am now all stainless steel.  Except the
> laundry machines upstairs, which thankfully are white.  Have you noticed
> that stainless steel actually means aluminium?  If it doesn't, whatever
> they're made of  it's not magnetic.  How the heck is one supposed to post
> stuff on the fridge????
>
>
> On 5/6/2016 2:59 PM, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
>
>> Marion -- and avocado dishwasher
>>
>> LOL  When my husband and I moved into our first rental, an old duplex, we
>> had to supply fridge and stove. We purchased, used, a small 'apartment
>> sized' white gas stove and a brand, spankin' new Frigidaire-made for
>> Montgomery Wards Fridge in.... ** Harvest Gold ** (the companion color for
>> home decor of Avocado).
>>
>> Three years later we moved into our new-to-us home and the owner was
>> leaving a.... Harvest Gold 5 burner gas range!.... 14 years later we moved
>> to TX and the home we bought had  - ta, da, a Harvest Gold built in double
>> ovens (and also Harvest Gold electric countertop 4 burner set up). It only
>> took us 17 years to have a Harvest Gold appliance color-coordinated kitchen
>> just as white was coming back in!!! The fridge eventually got replaced and
>> put in the 'mud room' for our 'overflow and big stuff', then the stovetop
>> got replaced with stainless steel, and finally maybe 15 years ago the oven
>> went and got replaced with black 'glass'.... I haven't seen the kitchen in
>> 8 years so I'm sure it's still the same... and meanwhile I'm now at 'all
>> white'... with no intention of replacing any major appliances any time soon
>> (I hope).
>>
>> Lynn
>>
>> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
>>
>> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have
>> not a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave
>> me." attributed to Erma Bombeck
>> "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk
>> by Richard Rohr
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Marion Thompson" <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2016 12:26 PM
>> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Medical update (& honestly, getting' a little
>> scary).
>>
>> Back in 1961 our subdivision house had an electric countertop and a wall
>>> oven -- and avocado dishwasher. Le dernier cri!  Next home in 1967 was an
>>> electric range and so it has continued almost to this day, except now since
>>> last fall I rejoice in a gas range. Happy camper here.
>>>
>>> I recall from those early days Flanders & Swann's song 'Design for
>>> Living' that said of the trendy wall oven, "This means that without my
>>> having to bend down the hot fat can squirt straight into my eye."
>>>
>>> Marion, a pilgrim
>>>
>>>
>>> On 5/6/2016 12:35 PM, Jay Weigel wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm agreeing with ME here. I HATE ranges, prefer the countertop with all
>>>> oven (preferably double, if I have m'druthers), and gas if at all
>>>> possible,
>>>> which it ain't here.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> A range is (IMO)
>>>>>
>>>>> a space-saving device, inconvenient, awkward, and dangerous.
>>>>>> -M
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> ... preferring instead a countertop 'burner' arrangement mount?
>>>>>
>>>>> Lynn, who has had both... but now has a range with a 'reach over
>>>>> microwave' (installed by former owner) which I rarely use.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
>>>>>
>>>>> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have
>>>>> not
>>>>> a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave
>>>>> me."
>>>>> attributed to Erma Bombeck
>>>>> "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a
>>>>> talk
>>>>> by Richard Rohr
>>>>>
>>>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>>>> From: "ME Michaud" <michaudme at gmail.com>
>>>>> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2016 10:43 AM
>>>>> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Medical update (& honestly, getting' a little
>>>>> scary).
>>>>>
>>>>> A friend redid his kitchen (at great expense) a few years ago and I was
>>>>>
>>>>>> astonished to discover that, despite the fact that he had loads of
>>>>>> room in
>>>>>> that approx 10' x 20' space, he installed a kitchen range. >
>>>>>> On Friday, May 6, 2016, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Minor burns, oh yes! Whoever designed the stove with an oven you have
>>>>>> to
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> LEAN OVER to get stuff out of......to perdition with him/her! I would
>>>>>>> KILL
>>>>>>> to get my wall oven back!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> .
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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