did you report the technical difficutly to GW ??? under the link way down below.. under CONTACT US .... link below ... change the Nature of Message: to technical difficulty ... paste the URL link into the post ... and then just add a few words about the problem .... they cant help.. if we dont tell them ... eh?? and if you did.. then hopefully others will learn .... ken Here is a link that might be useful: link

If you rember your exact user name a google search using quotation marks should bring up all your posts. (I never liked that but nothing we can do about it.) Try "username" then "username" + subject.

awww, thanks so much. we ended up moving because someone came along and offered us a boat load of money for the house - we didn't have to put it on the market, just sold it direct to them. The advantage to me, was to be able to buy a house with a better floorplan. The other house had a lot of square footage on the first floor, but we spend all of our time squeezed into the tiny family room off the kitchen and never used the rest of the space AND had with all that space, no dining room which was a bummer. On the 2nd floor we had only 2 bedrooms and a small room which was supposed to be the laundry room. Our plans had been to build on another bedroom on the second floor and move the laundry upstairs - the space on the first floor where the laundry was would become a dining room. BUT, when these people came along and wanted the house we figured we'd save ourselves the agony of another enormous renovation. The new house literally only needs a kitchen. Everything else is fantastic. Now my son doesn't have his bedroom in a tiny laundry room and can have all his toys out in his bedroom and play to his hearts delight (listening to him play and seeing his amazing creations with his blocks and trucks is the BEST part of the new house). I can't wait to do over the kitchen. I am really excited about it. I wouldn't have wanted to buy a house with the kitchen "done"... I am sure they wouldn't have been as TKO as I am!!! I don't think it will be another white kitchen. Still thinking about what to do and working on the floorplan. Cannot wait to get rid of the 24" soffits and laminate counters and the creaky old metal cabinets, and mostly the refrigerate in another room!!! (I do love having wall ovens though)

I have an upright freezer in my kitchen. It has an opening in the oak cabinetry that my DH built when he did the rest of the kitchen cabinetry and looks like the refrig opening (match-matchy). Having it there makes so much more sense than one out in the pole barn (sorry annie1992). I also have a chest freezer in the bakery kitchen. To organize them, I put like things together on the shelves, some in baskets, some not. They are labeled on the outside (plain paper under a magnet) as to what is on each shelf of the upright, and what is in the left, middle, and right of the chest. They do get a lot of scritch-scratch on the papers, but I can finally keep track of all the "just stuff it in there" that may be labeled (like cloudy_christine) from too many years ago. The labels are: poultry, meat, seafood, fruit, veggies (including onions, sweet peppers, mashed potatoes), dairy (cheese/butter/eggs), finished stuff to reheat, and the additives (fat back, dried herbs, ginger, zest, bread &/or crumbs, vodka). All of the labels include dates - it only takes a minute - truthfully! The shelf for stuff to reheat is the wisest thing I've done since there's just the two of us and I cook for an army mostly, old habit having multiple children and/or relatives in the house. Pulling out a pile of waffles, bean soup, cooked rice, or ravioli is a god-send when it comes to lunch or dinner time. No stress. Do invest in a new gasket for whatever you buy new. The freezer will last a long time but the gaskets age and, like you discovered sleeven-dog, the manufactures stop offering them when you need them, years later. Extended warranty on most appliances are totally worthless. The unit is covered, usually by a 1-yr warranty, so what you are buying is just more money out the front door because it is not going to fail the first year. IMO Do buy a Food Saver or other air-sucker to preserve your frozen stuff. Even the lowly Mason pint or quart jars work exceptionally well in the freezer. IMO. Keep a thermometer in it. OF is OK but -10F is better. If you have a lot of open space in the freezer - stuff it heavily with newspaper or rice/flour/cornmeal/cereal/staples, or even ice cubes in a bag. The less air circulates in the open areas the better to maintain the freezing solid temperature in there. Nancy