This morning I pulled up the 2014 Buyers Guide from Consumer Reports and found two stoves that are in stock on my side of town. Sears has one that is a close match to the top model, the second best on the list is identical and is $50 more at Lowe's. I've ordered and paid online for that second one (Frigidaire FFEF3015LW).

Susie and I are going to do our side-by-side cleaning thing this evening - she'll come by here on her way home from babysitting and we'll have dinner then move my stove out and clean up the space (grease drips, dust). We'll head up to her house and dust in her bedroom to look for her hearing aid (misplaced last week) and I'm going to look into her funky DSL connection and see if she needs to have AT&T replace the modem. She has been paying for this all along and probably not had a signal since last spring.

Michelle, if you have any energy left at the end of the day, please let us know how the craft fair went. What did you learn, what changes will you make? Did you take any special orders? A co-worker of mine was at a fair last week (she sells sparkly beaded stretchy loops for putting on scarves to keep them in place.) She had one special order and the woman offered to pay her a bit more because it was a special order.

A bit of shopping, then out to the garden. I need to pick most things because we have a possible frost in the forecast during the week. Better to get stuff now than to risk forgetting or getting to busy to be able to pick all of the stuff that has to come in. I'm sure with the new stove I'll be looking for excuses to cook up a storm, so the timing is good. Green tomato relish, here I come! I went ahead and got the electric burner stove, not the glass top. Better for canning and no other fussing about how to set up my processing pans.

SRS