Okay, we're not literally cooking now. But we DO have the equipment to allow The Pony to cook, once he moves into Pony House.
Nothing fancy. Just a functioning stove, in basic white. Hick got it on Friday. Oh, he didn't buy it at a store! Hick didn't buy that stove at all. He got it for free. Because he's Hick.
He has connections.
Here it is, sitting in a storage unit. The Pony's new used stove. Or, as Hick said with the picture he sent me:
"Got free kitchen stive today really clean"
That's a fine-looking FREE "stive" if I do say so myself. It was given to Hick by Back-Creek Neighbor Bev, who has moved from the property behind us, and is now moving again from her new property. I guess she's tired of hauling her stove around.
The Pony is fine with it. He says it looks like the stove he had in his college apartment.
Anyhoo... you can't get a better price than FREE. Although Hick might Tom-Sawyer his way into having people pay him to take things soon.
That's a much nicer stove than I had in my first place. And free is always the best price...
ReplyDeleteNow if only Hick could get a free triangle tub for The Pony House...
Yeah, can't beat the price. It's way better than my third stove, which was gas, and lighting the oven was risking my eyebrows.
DeleteHick could probably find a free triangle tub for only the cost of hauling it away. But he says you can't be sure how well it will work, and after installation it could be a pain to remove and replace.
I love cooking with gas, have done it all my life until I moved here and got stuck with electric. I hate it and barely cook these days compared to what I used to.
DeleteI don't trust gas not to kill me, by fume or explosion. The same house where I had the gas stove also had a gas furnace, and every time it kicked on, I thought I was a goner!
DeleteDon' look a gift stive in the burner.
ReplyDeleteI hope that gift stive likes red pepper flakes.
DeleteHell, FREE should work for anybody!! Glad Pony-boy is OK with it! If it does what a new one will do - who gives a rat's ass?
ReplyDeleteThe Pony is only persnickety about his bathtub, which must have jets, and a stainless steel sink, which came with the cabinets Hick bought off Facebook. The stove should work fine, since it came right out of Back-Creek Bev's own kitchen about a year ago.
DeleteA gift stive is better than no stive at all.
ReplyDeleteYes, better than making hobo stew in a can over a fire in the back yard.
DeleteGood job Hick! It is good to know people.
ReplyDeleteHick is s social butterfly. He could probably start his own society after the Apopadopalyspe (as he calls it). He has all the trades covered.
Delete"I guess she's tired of hauling her stove around"
ReplyDeleteDo people actually do that??over here, stoves are part of the house and stay with the house, unless the new house owner wants a different or newer model, then they pay for removal and installation of a new one, which then stays with the house if/when it gets sold again.
The right front coil on The Pony's stove looks tilted, best to get Hick to straighten it.
Around here, stoves and refrigerators usually don't stay with the house. A lot of rental houses don't even have them.
DeleteThe back right coil of my own stove is tilted. But I'll pass that info on to Hick, in case he might actually fix it.
Fridges don't usually stay with houses here, unless they've been bought in a specific size to fit a specific space and even then they might get taken still with the rest of the furniture.
ReplyDeleteI find it odd that stoves and fridges are treated differently there.
DeleteWashers and dryers are not left behind, either. But I'm pretty sure a dishwasher will stay with the house. Not that I know first-hand, having only had a dishwasher once, in my college apartment, and it didn't work.