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“That’s an odd sound,” Margie said, setting the microwave to cook something.\u00a0 And then it stopped on its own.<\/p>\n

Hmmmm.<\/p>\n

Tried it again.\u00a0 And again.\u00a0 And each time, and odd sound and a self-stopping microwave.<\/p>\n

That’s not good.<\/p>\n

Yes, our microwave oven has given up the ghost.\u00a0 What’s amazing is that, while I had a sense that we’d had this one only for a while, Margie’s memory and my auxiliary memory (i.e., my blog<\/a>) indicate that we got this lovely Panasonic unit back in November 2004!\u00a0 Yikes.\u00a0 Odd to think that this is the only kitchen microwave Katherine probably remembers, esp. since it’s only in the last year or so that she’s learned\u00a0 to use it.<\/p>\n

Looks like it’s time for a new one.\u00a0 Fortunately, tomorrow Kitten is tied up at her end-of-the-year Girl Scout meeting for a few hours, right down by the Southglenn Best Buy.\u00a0 So …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“That’s an odd sound,” Margie said, setting the microwave to cook something.\u00a0 And then it stopped on its own. Hmmmm. Tried it again.\u00a0 And again.\u00a0 And each time, and odd sound and a self-stopping microwave. That’s not good. Yes, our microwave oven has given up the ghost.\u00a0 What’s amazing is that, while I had a … Continue reading “Microwave good-bye”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-improvement"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3863,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/20\/waving.html","url_meta":{"origin":17221,"position":0},"title":"Waving","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 20-Mar-03 2:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So in the middle of our snow crisis, our microwave upped and crapped out. 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