GE appliances, Pagh !!

Now the brand new GE Monogram 'Fridge is making strange noises... and is unable to maintain set temperature in the freezer drawers.  I took my peas and other stuff out and put it in the chest freezer downstairs.

Not only are we not impressed ...we are disgusted.  Totally disheartened and ready to just cry about it all.  Where did we go wrong?  Everywhere it seems.  At this point....I cannot in all good conscience recommend anything GE.

Even the stovetop... not many people have this humming and buzzing problem with stainless pans with their stovetops.  So far only Miele and GE that I have heard about.  Not good.

After getting the keypad fixed on the 'also brand new' microwave.... and having gone through months of hassles with the cabinet company to get the panel correct that surrounds it... we decided it looked cheap and cheesy ... so we bought a new Panasonic instead.  Routered the panel ourselves to make it fit properly.  And...now have a brand new GE  microwave for sale.  .. in the Panasonic box... because of course, by now we had thrown out the GE box it belongs in.

So.... I have my call in to the technicians for the fridge...which of course, we also had months of hassling over....and finally got to use it only 2 months ago when the panels for that finally got made properly and were installed.

Arrghhhh!!!!

Baking is my salvation.  I have no motivation to do much else.

Pineapple cocoanut muffins yesterday....oh....man...are they tasty.  I invented them to use up some cocoanut milk and some pineapple I was using for a chicken dish the day before.  Still some of the milk remaining....so today...I'm making carrot sweet potato curry soup...with cocoanut milk and a bit of pineapple tossed in.  It will all be pureed at the end..... mmm....with fresh bread.... which I am making as I type..... okay well, it is resting.... I'm typing.

Look at the pretty buttery design in the bottom of the mixer bowl....

Shrunken heads.

My marshmallowy snow topped flower pots turned into what look like shrunken heads.  Ohhh....terrible.

 I so prefer the marshmallow look.  Soft and yummy....

The yard looks awful now.. some melting took place because we had some Chinook-y days... all sorts of nasty, unfinished things are lying naked and exposed.  Temperatures warmed up to plus numbers...even as high as +10C and then..it dropped again.. to the minus numbers and soooo... there are icy skating rinks all over the place.   Our subdivision streets are totally treacherous!  Not going out there ..so it is the treadmill again for me... well, actually I do it 'til spring when I know the roads and sidewalks are much safer.  No point being silly about that!  I saw my much younger neighbour do a cartoon like activity on his the other day... luckily, or maybe not so very lucky.. (I bet he hurts all over today) ..he spun out ..feet going in all directions; but managed to right himself as one knee was bent all funny and his ice breaking tool hit the ground and stopped his fall...but, wow... that arm  holding it, and the poor leg with that bent knee...oooooh..... not nice....

Maggi and I began a little goose made of mohair last week... first little guy...well, lady actually....   she will even have a cape and bonnet.... of the New Year.  We hope to continue this Wednesday...but, we'll see.  The Second Annual Neighbourhood Progressive dinner is this coming Saturday...and we have the Appetizers...so I must make goodies this week... and/or may be totally in panic mode by Wednesday and then I will have to opt out on playing with fun stuff til the following week.  We'll see.
If I get the little phyllo purses made today..as planned..hopefully I can play with mohair by mid-week.

I'll get a photo later of the WIP .....

Hopefully this blog will be back to making and doing fun stuff this year...   ....although, having said that .... the stupid cabinet company ... named Legacy, is refusing to even return our calls and those of our contractor.  And when they do... they have no answers for us about any of what is happening.  I fervently hope anybody living in Calgary who reads this does not use them and tells everybody they know about their ridiculous lack of caring for customers, their lack of business sense and their total ineptness in actually building cabinetry..... so that nobody has to go through what we are going through with this company.  They still have not made any effort at finishing off our microwave opening...the third attempt; the dishwasher panel; also the third attempt at getting the correct size; or the fridge panels  whose screws are almost poking through them because they indented panels on the back of them and should not have built them that way for attaching to the built-in fridge (there are very detailed, specific instructions and diagrams to be followed as outlined in the installation Guide, which they have had for months) ... but, now they want to just repair things which have not been built to specifications... . I'm not sure how that would be attempted ...  . and...the drawer front next to the oven which has 1/2 inch insets on the panel instead of 1/4 inch insets like all the other drawer and cupboard fronts in the whole kitchen .... ...The oven is now actually in position and working, thankfully, so at least I can do my other hobby....baking!  I am trying to stay calm... because it is the only way I will make it through the end of the renovation project, whenever that might be, without injuring somebody or breaking something.....

If I had any money left I would begin a lawsuit for breach of contract .... because they have been for months now.... but, what good would it do? ... only the lawyers would get anything out of it I'm sure ....
 maybe perseverance will pay off......