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Skriven 2014-05-10 15:58:31 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 13124 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: memory  was: egg-planting
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-=> Quoting RUTH HANSCHKA to NANCY BACKUS on 08 May 14  23:49:52 <=-

 ->  -> But that is less likely to produce the stretched families where the
 ->  -> uncle/aunt is younger than the niece/nephews
 ->  RH> The exact opposite can be true.  A friend just adopted her own 
 ->  RH> granddaughter.  
 -> That just messes up the lineage on its own... (G)  That's how one gets
 -> to be their own grandpaw...  (G)
 -> 
 RH> Something like that.  Then again a friend has twin sons who are only
 RH> about a year older than his oldest grandkid. The parents got married
 RH> at 19 and 20 respectively.   

That was close... the grandkid could have been older than the youngest
twins... (G)

 RH> I won't even bring in the late Tony Randall.  He got married a second
 RH> time in his 70s to a much younger woman.  There weren't any kids with
 RH> wife #1 though, so it didn't get as weird as it could have. 
 
Second (and subsequent) marriages and steps definitely change the
playing field...  (G)

 ->  -> their respective jobs better... but don't last near so long as
 ->  -> their clunkier predecessors...  ;)
 ->  RH> The clunkers ran forever.  The stove we sold with my grandmother's
 ->  RH> house may STILL be there - 1930s gas.  The ones from the 50s lasted
 ->  RH> lasted a long time too.   
 -> We are still using a stove from the 50's (GE)... came with the house,
 -> and hasn't died yet...  Had to replace the element for the bake unit in
 -> the oven, multiple times even, but it's working fine now, as are at
 -> least two of the four burners of the stove.  And so far the pushbuttons
 -> haven't broken either...  I keep thinking that something irreplaceable
 -> will go, but so far, not at all...  :)

 RH> I personally wouldn't call being down to two burners still working,
 RH> but that's just me. 

I only know of one burner that doesn't work anymore... it was the one
that lowered into a hole so one could do deep-frying more easily...  The
other back burner I just haven't tried for ages, maybe it still works,
but I've not needed to have more than two in use at any one time...
usually only one...  so maybe there's 3 out of 4 working... ;)

 RH> Also my antipathy for electric stoves. 

They have their pluses and minuses, as do gas stoves...  I'm fine with
either... and will miss the other, for some things...  ;)

 RH> We had a pushbutton one early on.  After the buttons died for the
 RH> second time and we couldn't get replacements, we went to gas. 

We've been expecting the pushbuttons to die for decades... so far they
are working just fine...  (G)  I expect that when they do, we won't be
able to find replacements...

 RH> That croaked a few years
 RH> ago too, so in went a new gas cook top.  Nothing fancy, but it works.

Works is what counts...  fancy is as fancy does...  ;)

 ->  RH> OTOH I had a dishwasher that died in a hair over a year. The new
 ->  RH> stuff can do more; the old stuff was sturdier.
 -> The fridge that came with the house when we bought it, almost 40 years
 -> ago, died shortly after we moved in... it was the same vintage as the
 -> stove, I think...  We got an Amana that lasted about 35 years, so only
 -> recently bit the dust... When we went to replace it, we were told by
 -> the salesman at the appliance store not to expect the new one to live
 -> anywhere near so long...  rather dismaying...  I think we may have made

 RH> They say about ten years if you're lucky. 

That sounds about right...  we're hoping, of course, for VERY lucky...
and having it last longer... ;)

 -> choices that could enhance its chances for a longer life, got it without
 -> any of the bells and whistles, ie, no ice cube maker, no water or ice
 -> dispensers, etc...  Just a top freezer and a refrigerator with shelves
 -> and drawers... :)

 RH> That's what we did.  The lower end models tend to last longer.  

Exactly...  :)

 -> We haven't used it in forever, but I think that the ancient 50's
 -> GE dishwasher that also came with the house still works... it's a
 -> portable, and needs to be hooked up to a sink... which is part of why
 -> it hasn't been used in yonks...  :)

 RH> Mine's a built-in.  We're on our fourth one.  The one that came in the

We'd have to re-think the kitchen to get one built in now...

 RH> house died shortly after my parents moved in.  My mom got a new one,
 RH> that worked, in the early 70s and it lasted 30 years and change.  The
 RH> replacement lasted a whole year before needing a major repair that
 RH> also failed.  It was a fancy one.  The cheap-o replacement she bought
 RH> after that one died is still going fine.

Go figure...  :)  As we were saying, the lower end models are more
likely to last... :)

ttyl        neb

... If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
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