So much for September
Sep. 30th, 2024 11:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
halfshellvenusWhat a weekend. I wound up in a 6-person writeoff after last week's Idol poll, so I spent Friday and a lot of Saturday writing an entry for that. Humor! Always fun when I can get it to happen. Please take a look and vote for me if you can. I need all the votes I can get!
I was on a roll Friday. I poked some people at work (my day off) to get a review merged for something I've been stuck on for about... 2 months? I needed help from another team to get our feature to work, and it took awhile until they were available to help. Merged! I can breathe now! And go on to the next overdue thing. \o?
I researched and specified a bunch of stuff for the house, and the project manager turned it around and put it up for approval, so we made a lot of progress there. We might actually meet the end-of-October move-in date. *bites nails* Now I'm starting to worry about having to MINIMALLY replace our mattress/boxsprings, probably at least one sofa, and the rug under the piano before our surviving stuff gets delivered to the house. I mean, both sofas were declared fire losses, but we could get by with one for awhile. Anything upholstered won't have survived, obviously (smoke fumes & toxins). Other things? It's iffy. I canNOT get a straight answer from the restoration people about kitchen stuff. Keepsakes I cleaned from the kitchen took a LOT of work to get the smoke smut off. Will we ever be able to safely eat anything using our dishes & silverware? What about the cookware? I have the feeling we'll be replacing a LOT of that. :(
Wild and not-so-wild life: I saw something on the bike path Friday that was a first-- a Siamese cat in a bike basket! I would be so afraid a cat would jump out while the bike was moving. Conversely, HalfshellHusband swears that a little cottontail bunny came up and looked in the living room window on Saturday. That surprises me. At best, it's a third of a mile to the parkway from here, and that's a long way for a little bunny to hop!
So, 101o temps again starting tomorrow. How's your weather? I'm hoping none of you had hurricane damage. :(
I was on a roll Friday. I poked some people at work (my day off) to get a review merged for something I've been stuck on for about... 2 months? I needed help from another team to get our feature to work, and it took awhile until they were available to help. Merged! I can breathe now! And go on to the next overdue thing. \o?
I researched and specified a bunch of stuff for the house, and the project manager turned it around and put it up for approval, so we made a lot of progress there. We might actually meet the end-of-October move-in date. *bites nails* Now I'm starting to worry about having to MINIMALLY replace our mattress/boxsprings, probably at least one sofa, and the rug under the piano before our surviving stuff gets delivered to the house. I mean, both sofas were declared fire losses, but we could get by with one for awhile. Anything upholstered won't have survived, obviously (smoke fumes & toxins). Other things? It's iffy. I canNOT get a straight answer from the restoration people about kitchen stuff. Keepsakes I cleaned from the kitchen took a LOT of work to get the smoke smut off. Will we ever be able to safely eat anything using our dishes & silverware? What about the cookware? I have the feeling we'll be replacing a LOT of that. :(
Wild and not-so-wild life: I saw something on the bike path Friday that was a first-- a Siamese cat in a bike basket! I would be so afraid a cat would jump out while the bike was moving. Conversely, HalfshellHusband swears that a little cottontail bunny came up and looked in the living room window on Saturday. That surprises me. At best, it's a third of a mile to the parkway from here, and that's a long way for a little bunny to hop!
So, 101o temps again starting tomorrow. How's your weather? I'm hoping none of you had hurricane damage. :(
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Date: 2024-09-30 10:57 pm (UTC)Good news about the stainless flatware! I don't know what to think about the dutch oven and slow-cooker. And our non-stick cookware was anodyne. HalfshellHusband will be crushed if we have to try to replace it-- they probably don't make some of it anymore. Like so many things I've come across due to the fire!
Thanks for the info-- I really appreciate it!
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Date: 2024-10-01 12:27 am (UTC)Are you sure you don't mean Analon? But no matter, the nob-stick coating has an upper degree level that I'm quite sure was killed by the fire. I know mine can't be in an oven higher than 450 degrees, and mine is on the upper end for non-stick. I usually keep things down to 400 or under just to be safe.
Yeah - stoneware is indeed porous. Bummer!
- Erulisse (one L)
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Date: 2024-10-01 12:33 am (UTC)No way of knowing how hot the temps in the house got. Most of what burned was in the garage, with an edge of the house. But we had water damage, and I know temperatures got pretty high because everything in the hall closet (opposite side of the house from the garage) got scorched or melted.