A moment to say “hi”
I’ve been grooming one or two dogs most days, only totalling six or eight per week, but it’s my joy and it keeps me “afloat”. It’s a slow time in the kennels, too, but Christmas season will be busy.
Thank goodness the weather has warmed a bit… it was -28˚ Celcius, or about -20 Farenheit, for several days, and now it’s MILD, not very many degrees below freezing, no matter what scale we’re reading.
A washer and dryer project has turned out to be quite a saga. I chose a very good set from Sears, plus what I thought were matching “pedestals” which have a drawer in each. Right after I ordered, Gary pointed out that the information in the catalog seemed to indicate that those particular pedestals were not designed for that laundry pair. I refused to believe it, though I can read plain English: I had made my choice based on the dimensions listed for all the pieces, and not some other fine print. The OTHER pedestals in the catalog did not have drawers, so I didn’t want them.
So, after the order was placed but before we received the goods, I got on the phone to Sears departments… ordering, parts, service, repair, and then the actual Sears store Appliance department in Prince George. Each person on the phone either didn’t know at all if those pedestals would fit those appliances, OR ASSURED me that they would!
We got our laundry team and the pedestals and left them in their crates until we had some other work done for the space they were destined for. Eventually, we got them out of the boxes, and it did appear that it would all work out. However, once I installed the brackets on the pedestals and Gary had a look, we had to agree that nothing was going to fit as planned. No brackets matched any holes in the appliances. I feel so disappointed. Yesterday we had a friend visiting who was also determined that we could make everything “fit”, and he thought we should just drill holes to fit the brackets. Drill holes in brand new appliances? YIKES, it just doesn’t seem right. I had double checked in the meantime with a salesman in Prince George, and he said, “YES, absolutely those pedestals fit that model of appliances.”, but he could not tell me HOW it’s done. Now, if we lived anywhere NEAR the Sears store, or if the local Sears repairman had any clue about this, we might have a solution.
If I can’t convince Gary that the washer and dryer would be stable enough without the brackets and bolts, we are sending the pedestals back. I’m so disappointed. We’ve considered building a “cabinet” with drawers, for underneath the heavy appliances, but somehow I just don’t think it could look as elegant as those drawers which match.
So there’s the saga of the laundry team. We’re waiting for a plumber to put in the supply lines for the washer, and everything else, I think, is “good to go”. I guess as far as life’s little disappointments go, this is pretty minor.
~ Talk to you soon, Ann
