New Equipment

 We added some new equipment to The Acre this week, but it wasn't without drama. A few days after the new year, we blew the last of the control switches on the old stove. Lawman has replaced the switches on all four eyes twice. Left front was the last holdout, but gave up. Rather than keep replacing the switches, we decided to pull the trigger on a new stove. Cupcake did some online shopping and found a silver stove with a blue inside that she fell in love with. And what Cupcake wants, Cupcake gets.

Since "The Boy" works at Home Depot, we decided to throw some business their way. They had the very stove Cupcake loved, so we put the money down on the barrel head. They said the earliest they could get it to us was 1/28. So we signed on and ticked the days off of the calendar. 1/28 arrived and we got a window of 1500-1900hrs, and around 3, the driver called and said he was twenty minutes away. So we moved out the kitchen table, pulled out the old stove and stood at the window like a couple of kids waiting for Santa on Christmas Eve. Twenty minutes went by, then an hour, then two hours.....

Nearly three hours later, Lawman called the driver back to see if a search and rescue effort needed to be activated. The driver said his truck broke down and 'somebody should have called you.' (Like him, maybe?)

Later that night, the delivery company (private, not affiliated with the Home Depot) called to reschedule our delivery. No 'sorry' 'our bad' boo, scat, or kiss our ass. Now we thought, OK, the truck broke down so tomorrow morning you'll be first? Nah. Next Tuesday is the best they could do, and again, a four hour window. Lawman's knee jerk reaction was "hells naw" but called them back and agreed to the Tuesday delivery. Tuesday rolls around and no word from the delivery company, so we inquired around noon. Turns out, we were not on the schedule for Tuesday, best they could do was Friday. Four hour window. 

Friday rolled around and the crew didn't give us any heads up they were coming, just showed up. But at least we got our new stove.

Cupcake made a Mexican casserole for dinner Friday night, and Lawman made a fresh batch of cookies. So we both got to use the new equipment the first night.

Saturday morning as we rolled into the kitchen to start our day, we noticed a brand new stick of deodorant on the kitchen table with the sun hitting it just right. 

Not only is everything doubling in price, the product is getting a little smaller. Go team us.

We still use the Blackstone along with the new oven. It's great being able to cook an entire meal at the same time together.

Saturday is still steak and tater night, so now Sunday is Reuben sammich night. And the topper is always the home made kraut.

We ended the week with a trip to the K-Rogers where we ran in to our pal Marc E. Then came home for a nap. 

K&K