A few months ago, I declared the kitchen project finished, because I thought it was. Well, I was wrong. A few weeks ago our dishwasher began not cleaning dishes. So we followed the procedure: Running vinegar and sour salt through it to clean the sprayer. And it got better but still left ugly rings on glasses.

And then one day about three weeks ago, the dishwasher would not start, so we began to rely on a dishwasher named Helen, who had not lost her dish-washing skills but prefers blogging to dish-washing.

On Monday we bought a new dishwasher. And yesterday we – well, mostly Bill – installed it! Yea dishwasher! Yea Blogging!