Amazing Grace
My dad was a mean father. Mom always ran interference and tried so hard to make sure there was time for us to have fun. We all have a great relationship with her, but as her gay son, I hold the trump card. I spent lots of time with my grandparents and as the gay grandson; I held the trump card for grandma, listening to her stories (she came to America from Holland)by the hour. It helps to visit with mom because I know names, roads, dates, and stories of all the people my mom went to school with as well as the ins and outs of the relatives.
Bought the Pink stuff cheap and resold it. Could have sold 20 of each.
My mom was still trying to soothe my dad after 58 years of marriage. When mom began to tip, she went to a place where she absolutely knows no stress. The first time in her life she could relax and let go. My entire life I did everything I could physically, materially and emotionally do to help mom's life become easier. I knew when she went to her new space, our relationship was cemented. She fundamentally knows I love her and I can assure her enough to get her to do or go just about anywhere or place its needed. Mom is very funny, still quick with wit, but now she cannot recall the last sentence you have just said to be able to answer in context. Its killing my dad whose every wish is to die first so he won't be alone. He neither reads nor writes and even in their business transaction mom would coach and prompt dad in such a way he got the gist of things and his ignorance was not revealed. This man cannot look up a phone number.
Shifting gears, I attach a note I sent to another member who asked the same questions.
Its been to fun to post and my life is hard to explain. I was 13 when I began buying, trading, finding and playing with appliances both large and small. The number of appliances I've had likely tops 5,000. In 2002, the year I retired, my wife wanted to move to Seattle. We left a small ranch, three story house, barn, animals, full basement and moved into a 2 bedroom 1,200 sq ft condo. All the collections and the stable of appliance were sold or gifted. (My cousin came to visit and asked why all my stuff was. I told her I had gotten rid of it all. She looked at me and said, "So you let her make you get rid of it all and now this is it, life in a box and then you die?" I replaced the condo appliances with new GE and it was then I made the shift from all Sunbeam counter top appliances to Kitchenaid. In 2004, I left my wife and for the first time since I was 19, I had my own place. I moved to an apartment with all GE and then a few months after moved into a condo on trendy Capitol Hill, whose kitchen wall I painted red which you see in some of the pictures. There I had all Maytag appliances. That kitchen shows some of the counter top appliances and the appliances were white. In 2006, when I was beginning chemo, I moved to much less expensive apartment in a small town near SeaTac airport. In this kitchen I first had almond Whirlpool appliances. I swapped to white Frigidaire and a Kitchenaid dishwasher. My Amana freezer on the bottom quit. I switched to all GE TOL kitchen appliances that Peter's neighbor gave me in a remodel. I have had a white, gray, red and copper Kitchenaid 620 as well as 100 or so other Kitchenaids that I find refurb and give to friends who want one. I bring home anything appliances and cookware, vacuums (elux and Hoover) etc that are too good to pass up. When I first arrived here all the counter top appliances were white. Kitchenaid did a warrantee exchange and I ended up with a black coffee maker so I have slowly swapped out the white for black. In my laundry room in the basement, I have a matching 1992 TOL Maytag set plus two vintage Maytags. I also have a very cool Frigidaire retro range I must take pictures of. Currently the GE products are far superior to anything I have ever owned or cooked with. I doubt I will ever go back to a total retro but will always have some on the side. The kitchen in Burien first had white walls and then I painted a metallic silver blue.
I bought the pink set off craigs in Decemeber. I relisted them and could have 20.
