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I can't speak for the chain, but the Dillard's a few towns over is trashy. I won't set foot in it. It's this odd small southern Illinois town that collectively has a Napoleon complex or paranoid personality disorder or something, and the Dillards and the people who work there are the retail...

I miss Sears. There used to be a free-standing Sears in downtown Waukegan. We always parked such that we had to go through the appliance department to get anywhere else. Whether mom and dad did this to appease me or if it was just convenient traffic-wise, I don't know. Somewhere in the early...

Veg--I wish he had a twin, or even a sibling, because the world needs more people like him. OHHHH but the mother-in-law you'd have to deal with... We've always got cute doctors around, though. I'll keep my eye out for you! A word of advice for those casting their nets out for an MD. If you're...

I agree--it's tough to be a couple I can't think of anything else I've done that was more difficult. I was 28 when I met Todd, and at the time I desperately wanted to be in a life-long relationship, but had also become quite set in my ways. Early in our relationship, I would look forward to Todd...

Toggle--I read your first post and had to wonder if you had been peeking in our windows! I spent a lot of the summer out of town (nothing fun--father had major surgery, was in hospital for a month, a nursing home for two). I would come back from an emotional week and find NOTHING done around the...

Heating Element TurboTom: We used to have a KDI-16 that had a heating element in the sump--it was a 700W single wattage that only energized during the main wash for "keep-hot" purposes. Seems like a fiberglas blanket on the tank would have been a lot simpler and done as much good. I don't know...

"Constant Rinse" was KA's name for the tiny sprayer above the top rack.

Those dishwasher pics bring back memories--right down to the Jet Dry basket. We had a KDD17 as a kid. It was identical to this except it had big exposed ball casters in front--like KA portables had to the end of the line. And ours was harvest gold. Ours did not have a constant rinse. Nor did it...

I would by all means get it. I'm finding that older KA machines are becoming fewer and farther between, and that one can't be too picky anymore. The 18 series machines had a rather small wash arm under the top rack that didn't reach items in the corners very well. You'll want to find a newer...

Veg--Honey is adorable! WHERE do dogs learn to look SO CUTE. Betty has never tiddled in OUR house, but when she has visited her big bruiser black lab friend, she HAS tiddled at THAT house--marking her turf I guess. If she'd sneak off and do it in a corner and demonstrate some shame, it would be...

Here's another shot of Betty--obviously there is some chow in her lineage. At 37 lbs, I think she's a "right-sized" dog. T.

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You know, I don't think I've ever had Tab...but it seems like something that would go perfectly with my present life as a secretary...have to find some at lunch. T.

She is too cute--and SO well-behaved. The vet figures that she's about 2 years old. I don't know how rough her previous life was, but she has no interest in dog treats, isn't particularly thrilled with kibble, and LOVES grass and weeds. I wonder if she couldn't be trained to edge the driveway...

Since we're sharing pets... This is Betty--she's a scrappy little former streetwalker who walked up to Todd one day with repentence in her eyes--and burned pads because she had walked through fresh asphalt. She has completely acclimated to her new glamorous (though chaste) life of lounging on...

Here is my partner Todd (l) and I (r) at a respectable St. Louis establishment called Absolutli Goosed. I think I'm on my fifth drink. So lovely that this was the best picture I could find of us. T.

Spotscrubber All sorts of GE washer memories are flooding back at me. Didn't GE have a washer they billed as "Spotscrubber" at some time? Or was that just the name of a special cycle? When was this? I seem to recall it involved the minibasket and a large dose of detergent, a-la-Catalyst. Or am...

And now I wonder...was the variable speed clutch like the 2-speed clutch in that one shouldn't change speeds once the machine was going? Because if that's the case, I probably am the one that broke G's clutch...one more thing to have on my conscience. :) T.

I do remember the Versatronic washer my grandmother had specifically said "Versatronic Control Washer" on it. It had a more "conventional looking" GE control panel with a stack of horizontal toggle switches at the left, I believe 2 (or 3?) rotary knobs in the center, and timer on the right. I am...

I hope its an oil dryer too, but that fuel line looks a lot like the brownish braided cloth covered electrical cable I've become so familiar with at my partner's house. I can't imagine a copper line with such a bend in it. T.