After I washed the dog food bowls the other evening, I looked over and briefly admired the nice symmetrical pyramid shape on the counter. (Some have accused me of being just a little OCD about having all objects around the ranch lined up in perfect symmetry. Memo to our volunteers: The blog is not the place to post your comments about this issue!) The total count of bowls in the photo was 19 — several smaller Doxie-sized dishes are stacked underneath the big bowls — and I still had two dishes left in Kelly's Cottage. They wouldn't fit symmetrically in this stack so I didn't wash them.
(That's a joke. I'm kidding. Really.)
Anyway, after washing them and then admiring my handiwork, I thought to myself, that's a lot of bowls for us to wash by hand every day — a dishwasher would make this chore go so much faster! And then I remembered that when we put this small modular home in, back in 1998, we had an option for a dishwasher in the kitchen but chose to use the space for cabinet storage instead. When you've only got 1,400 square feet (130 square meters) to live in, you need all the storage you can get, eh?
And besides, back in 1998 this house was only going to be the "vacation cottage" we would use for the next dozen plus years until we took early retirement at 55 (say, in 2013 or so) and then built a real house before we moved to the ranch permanently. That was the original plan, and who needs a dishwasher in a vacation cottage, right?
Of course, we ended up deciding to accelerate the move to Montana by 13 years or so, the vacation cottage became the "real house," and there is still no room for a dishwasher. Except the two-legged kind. Who keep themselves busy washing the food bowls for the four-legged kind.
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