From Fire Hazard… to Fabulous

So we hit a couple snags while continuing our current quest of rewiring the upstairs. You see, where we thought we could run the wire straight up from the basement, turns out to not be a viable option. So we ventured down to the spider-infested basement (more about that later) and searched for a new path to run power up to the second floor. Now, instead of coming up through the kitchen, we’re coming up through the where the kitchenette in apartment 3 used to be. I say used to be, because we spent most of today (which we didn’t expect) pulling it out. This involved a lot of unscrewing of unnecessary parts trying to figure out how the damn thing went together/came apart. Several screws, the oven door, the burners, random pieces of sheet metal and a whole lot of what I like to call plumber-language (just think of every 4-letter word you can and string them all together) later, we got it out and away from the wall. And we also inherited a few treasures; a moldy lemon, a dried bottle of dish detergent and a recipe for “Creamed Dried Beef”. We also discovered that not only did the thing look like it was from the 50’s it weighed like it was made in the 50’s. So Travis called in reinforcements and thanks to EJ’s extra set of muscles, we got the kitchen out to it’s temporary home on the sidewalk. Not exactly what we expected to do today, but it needed to be done anyway. We can always work on the rest of the wiring tomorrow…

• “Cream Dried Beef”
  1. Break beef into pieces
  2. Crisp in butter, add flour until grease is absorbed
  3. Add milk to desired thickness
  4. if wine is desired, add before flour is used. Use about 1-2 T. wine.