My kitchen was smelling not good the other morning. Not exactly like rotten onions, or potatoes but something like that. (Not that I have ever smelled those things in my own kitchen. I just imagine what they might smell like.) I ran the garbage disposal in case that was the culprit. No way. Getting to the bottom of the rot is the only solution. I haven't lived that long in this house that there could even be much. So I told myself.
This morning I opened up the dishwasher which has never worked since I moved in. How do I know it won't work? I tried to use it. It filled with water, didn't even swish it around, didn't drain the water when I tried to use it about a month ago or so. Opened that dishwasher and was about knocked off my feet by the smell, sort of amonia or rotten eggs, awful. So, the source of the smell was uncovered.
The reason I opened the dishwasher is--I am having a new one installed tomorrow. What I decided about that stinky mess was, the water needed to be drained. If I foolishly let the installers try to take it out full of water, it would probably slosh all over my floor and I would have the smell forever in this house. So, I bailed it out, that stinky water. cup by cup. Mentally I considered the advantages of owning a syphon, but I decided that I could do this, I could get the stinky water out. It took quite a little while to accomplish this task.
Sometimes life is that way, I just have to get into the middle of the mess and brave the stinky, smelly water and remedy the situation. This was a tiny problem in the broad scheme of things, a teeny tiny problem. But, it was my problem and I fixed it.
This morning I opened up the dishwasher which has never worked since I moved in. How do I know it won't work? I tried to use it. It filled with water, didn't even swish it around, didn't drain the water when I tried to use it about a month ago or so. Opened that dishwasher and was about knocked off my feet by the smell, sort of amonia or rotten eggs, awful. So, the source of the smell was uncovered.
The reason I opened the dishwasher is--I am having a new one installed tomorrow. What I decided about that stinky mess was, the water needed to be drained. If I foolishly let the installers try to take it out full of water, it would probably slosh all over my floor and I would have the smell forever in this house. So, I bailed it out, that stinky water. cup by cup. Mentally I considered the advantages of owning a syphon, but I decided that I could do this, I could get the stinky water out. It took quite a little while to accomplish this task.
Sometimes life is that way, I just have to get into the middle of the mess and brave the stinky, smelly water and remedy the situation. This was a tiny problem in the broad scheme of things, a teeny tiny problem. But, it was my problem and I fixed it.