OT: What are you thankful for today?

[CAwireman]

We’ll, its been a rough year for my family, but good, very good. What are we thankful for?

1) Happy Healthy Baby- about 9 months only now! Family is happy and healthy too, except for my aging, aching old body…

2) New house (read that, fixer-upper foreclosure) Still boxes stacked up in lots of places, ut 45% less squalor than 2 months ago. Beats the heck out of the apartments we had been in for years. Should start a thread on all the things us recent home buyers we’ve had to do to our places since moving in.

3) An economy that never fell off a cliff fully. Of all the precitions we seen, here in the US, its not nearly as bad as it could easily have been. Who knows what will happen in the next few years here in the US. But, we are still hopeful for continued employment, good health, and a nice glass of wine every now and again.

4) Government – sorry, not a thing I can think of to be thankful for in this category.

Well – have to cut it short there, we have a late start on cooking a Turkey in our 20 year old oven. Wish us luck.

Best of to all Piggingtons and what are you thankful for today?

Higgybaby and family…

[Coronita]

I’m still alive (for now) 🙂

[bearishgurl]

Congrats on your new (old) purchase, HiggyBaby! As time goes on, I know you will be able to make it just like you want!

And, 20 yo ovens work fine… until they don’t. Many ovens of the “early 90’s era” have “LED readout panels.” Most have undoubtedly “gone bad” by now (flickering portions of numbers and letters), causing their owners to have to use portable thermometers inside the oven. This fix works … for about 3 years. Eventually, they will only cook at 500 degrees, burning everything! Then it’s time to replace them. (The panel replacement costs abt $350 – more than the oven is worth). 95% of the *newer* 27″ (dbl) and 30″ (single) wall ovens are now “convection” and are built with a large fan in the back, making the installation trickier and not suitable for all applications.

As you may surmise, I myself have traveled this road – more than once… :=0

If your oven is a 30″ single, it can now be replaced with a convection wall oven at =<50% of retail price, costing $1000 - $1200, if purchased out-of-box (as clearance or display sample). The best times to shop for these are New Years Eve (Sears Sherman St Outlet - look for newspaper coupon) and Dec-Jan (Lowes display removals). Other retail outlets may also be clearing this year's models out at this time.

I'm thankful today for my health, my home and my family. Happy Thanksgiving to all Piggs and "happy cooking" or safe traveling if that's what you're doing!

[CAwireman]

[quote=bearishgurl]Congrats on your new (old) purchase, HiggyBaby! As time goes on, I know you will be able to make it just like you want!

And, 20 yo ovens work fine… until they don’t. Many ovens of the “early 90’s era” have “LED readout panels.” Most have undoubtedly “gone bad” by now (flickering portions of numbers and letters[/quote]

Funny, as I was just responding, our little one slapped the keyboard and it was gone. So, staring over…

Yeah, the LED display is out for one of the ovens (2 stacked). I plan to fix it myself if I can find replacement parts. Had an appliance guy from the manufacturer come out and turns out, they don’t stock parts for 20 YO appliances. But, I’m hopefull I can dig one up somewhere.

FLU – we expect you to be with us for a long time to come!!

[UCGal]

I’m thankful for my extended family.
Thankful for my awesome friends.
Thankful that both my husband and I are working and able to hit our savings goals.
Thankful the kids are healthy.
Thankful that the pie I baked for dinner came out great.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=HiggyBaby][quote=bearishgurl]Congrats on your new (old) purchase, HiggyBaby! As time goes on, I know you will be able to make it just like you want!

And, 20 yo ovens work fine… until they don’t. Many ovens of the “early 90’s era” have “LED readout panels.” Most have undoubtedly “gone bad” by now (flickering portions of numbers and letters[/quote]

Funny, as I was just responding, our little one slapped the keyboard and it was gone. So, staring over…

Yeah, the LED display is out for one of the ovens (2 stacked). I plan to fix it myself if I can find replacement parts. Had an appliance guy from the manufacturer come out and turns out, they don’t stock parts for 20 YO appliances. But, I’m hopefull I can dig one up somewhere.

FLU – we expect you to be with us for a long time to come!![/quote]

HiggyBaby, since you have a (27″?) dbl oven, it will cost a bit more to replace than one 30.” You are fortunate in that you can fix it yourself if you can cobble together the parts. Try Appliance Parts Center, HQ in Nat’l City for many years. They have EVERYTHING … even after-market parts to get older appls up and running again. Local LL’s swear by them!

see: http://www.appliancepartscenter.com/

And flu, yes, it is not yet time for you to “throw in the towel.” Regardless of how things might currently seem, I believe you’ve got many years yet left in you before it will be time to “call it a day.” Stay the course, as you are, and you will soon begin to see what I mean :=)

[scaredyclassic]

My kid says we should be grateful for the consistency of the laws of physics rather than any thing in particular.

[CAwireman]

[quote=bearishgurl] Try Appliance Parts Center, HQ in Nat’l City for many years. They have EVERYTHING … even after-market parts to get older appls up and running again. Local LL’s swear by them!

see: http://www.appliancepartscenter.com/

[/quote]
Thanks for the tip, I’ll check em out!

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