That morning when I came downstairs, I had heard a weird, faint noise that I couldn't identify. It almost sounded like a vibration noise, like something was rattling; I had bought a new coffeemaker the night before and set it to start brewing at 8:00, so at first I thought that was it, even though it was only about 7:30.
But it wasn't the coffeemaker, and I moved the teapot and the electric skillet that were sitting on the stove, and it kept going on, and I finally decided it was something inside the stove.
I didn't want to wake Bob up to come listen and (hopefully) fix it, and I figured (hoped) that it wasn't anything serious, i.e., anything that would cause the stove to blow up, so I just went off to work. He apparently didn't notice it when he went off to work, but by the time he got home, it had gotten louder. He said the cats, especially Pyewacket, looked really glad to see him.
Hence, the lying on the kitchen floor, head in the oven position. He wasn't able to fix it, not knowing for sure which wires to cut to sever the motor connection, but after he got the stove put back together, he went downstairs and shut off the breaker to the stove power. By the time we paid someone to come out and fix it, I imagine we might as well buy a new stove. I don't know what he's going to do about it, he's out of town for a couple of days on a fishing trip, so we can talk about it when he gets back. It's not as if I actually use the stove all that much.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): To paraphrase French poet
Charles Baudelaire: *Genius is nothing more or less than
childhood recovered -- a childhood now equipped for self-
expression with an adult's capacities.* I thought I'd dangle this
tempting notion in front of you now that you're so close to the
fountain of youth. Maybe it'll encourage you to slurp, not just
sip from those healing waters. Between gulps, you might want to
wail the chorus of Bob Dylan's song "My Back Pages": "I was so
much older then / I'm younger than that now."
~ Free Will Astrology
