Something to be said for more experience

Grace is very smart, and probably saved us from getting burned up in an LP gas explosion yesterday.  I told Jackie I didn't think she should put the stove on the new wood cabinet, but she said there was no other place it could go.  When she ran the hose from the cylinder to the stove, she routed it under the burner.  It looks neater that way, but the heat from the burner melted and damaged the hose.  Grace thought the routing looked wrong, and when she checked, found the melted hose.  I'll need to pick up a replacement at a building supply store.  A better quality than the original equipment hose will only cost 150p.  The sad thing is that the finish on the top of the cabinet is ruined from the burner heat.  I'm hoping the gentleman who made the cabinet will refinish it for me.  Grace and I talked it over, and the granite topped cabinets are too narrow for the stove, so we will have to use the wood cabinet.  We will have to find something fire proof to put on top of the wood to protect the finish, and provide some fire safety.

Since Gracie and I are perpetually joined at the hip now, she will be moving in with me, and Jackie and Joan will be moving out.  Grace is only 6 years older than the twins, but she has a little more world and work experience, so that she sees potential danger.  She was able to use the rice cooker to make a delicious chicken, vegetable, and macaroni soup yesterday, and a pork, river spinach, and vegetable soup today.  We walked down to the Jollibee for breakfast.  I'm estimating it is about 2 to 3 miles.  We stopped at a drapery shop to check on curtains on the way home, and at the market for vegetables that went in the soup for lunch today.  It is so much easier to get worthwhile exercise when we go together.  We are talking and telling funny stories the whole way so that the time flies, and the distance melts away.  Some of her stories about people making reservations are hilarious.  Unfortunately, a lot of American customers get irritated and are either rude, or abusive.  The funniest stories are about prank calls.  For example, one person spelled their "name" phonetically, "First Name:  Foxtrot, Uniform, Charlie, Kilo ; Last Name: Yankee, Uniform, Oscar"

I need to go see if Grace needs any help with the laundry.