Aliskye: Through the Looking Glass

First, it was the dishwasher refusing to run.  Then, the washing machine decided that it would stop agitating, no doubt in sympathy.  The water heater rebelled, too, by filling the leak pan.  That was December's great big ka*ching.  The dishwasher replacement gets a solid A.  It does a great job and it's very quiet.  The washing machine was a definite step down from my early nineties one.  When the delivery guy arrived with the new one, he had to check out the old KitchenAid and informed me that it had been a top-of-the-line, which is why it lasted over thirty years.  I've no such goals for the new one.  The traitorous water heater was basically a 1:1 swap.  It works.  yay.

Now other parts of the house want their five hours of cursing, too.  The bifold linen closet door only required some choice words, but it's fixed.  To celebrate, the 4Runner's hatch lifter decided to blow its seal.  Get two, because I know the other one isn't far behind.  But the worst is the tractor, a tool I did not appreciate back when the WBH informed me he was buying one.  Every time I go outside, I see more tractor jobs, while the stripped down tractor (no loader and no scraper) looks forlorn while it awaits more diagnosis and, eventually, parts.   

On the bright side, I'm reading "The Searcher" by Tana French; my garden looks great (if you don't look at the weedy pathways); the WBH is feeling good and has had great test results; and it's beautiful outside.   Best stop there.