During the height of summer, we try to recycle as much of our water as possible to water the garden, and so a 5-gallon plastic bucket stands ready and able in the kitchen to catch the water we use to wash and rinse the dishes.
And once the garden is done, the bucket wanders off and goes into hibernation until summer, or some other need arises.
About 2 weeks ago R noticed drips coming from the side of the sink where the garbage disposal is installed and so he cleared everything out under that side of the sink and put a plastic storage tub to catch the water and began searching out a reasonably priced garbage disposal. There ain’t no such animal, at least not at this time of the year. So he put off buying one.
Then this afternoon he came in where I was working away on manuscripts about shoulder and elbow surgery and wondered if I knew what was happening in the kitchen.
Well, no.
I had no idea what was happening in the kitchen. Whatever had happened in the kitchen had happened very quietly.
It seems the garbage disposal (with a 1-year warranty) that he installed some 30 years ago had rusted out and had totally disconnected from the sink – it was only held up by the drainpipe connecting it to the rest of the sink plumbing. It does amaze me sometimes how these things do not conveniently break on Monday morning.
And now the garbage disposal is not there at all, and so the 5-gallon bucket is once again in service and we are barely avoiding stubbing our toes on all the stuff from under the sink that is now scattered about the kitchen floor.
3 comments:
Sounds like home to me.
So sorry........but in 100 years it will not be so exasperating.
Without buckets, my life afloat would not be possible.....hmmmmm
my boat is sort of a big bucket :)
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At our house it seems like if something breaks or someone gets sick it's always after hours on a Friday evening. I would say you got pretty good service from that disposal though.
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