If I could only---
talk Pete (my boss) into getting the power here upgraded,I'd have this baby shipped here but the power here is a bit limited.The compound is all set up on regular and solar power.The solar panels are too few and the incoming power from the local source is not full enough to have 220 volts to run a dryer,range or a/c.because we sell propane to the local folk,All the appliances (including some of the refrigerators)are gas and any electric appliances are regular 110 volts.Pete hates electric ranges and says his Mom burned everything on hers. I said that she was never shown how to properly use hers properly.I grew up with gas and,once one of our members here helped by bringing me a great GE 40 inch Americana from 1966,I swore I'd never go back to gas cooking. I hate the smell (in fact,there's either one leaking here now or needs to be refilled because I can smell strong fumes coming into my apartment's windows.It's not mine thow.),I don't have the same control over a flame as I did over a smoothtop or coil burner and the oven heat is not as evenly distributed causing hot spots.The range I have in my unit is a Kenmore(made by GE)and was picked up at the dump. My right front burner is uneaven because the rust has caused it to fall a bit to the left making the right side of its flame higher than the left.Yesterday,the piping which comes from upstairs dumped drain water from both toilets down and (I was gone into Hilo for two days)shit and toilet paper was all over my kitchen. one of the workers here,Al,took the cover off and snaked all the drain pipes.As the snake was cranked back,three Hotwheels toy cars came through clearing the drainpipe and dumping tons of shit and used toilet paper into my kitchen. So,when I got home,I had to get out my rubber gloves,a face mask and some Clorox and strong Lysol liquid full strength in boiling hot water to thoroughly sanitize my entire kitchen.Why the hell anybody would have their sewerage pipes plummed above a kitchen's ceiling is beyond me but,that's Scochi's World(the name of Pete's business)here in "Paradise".
