Stove Trouble

A week after I got home from having Ellie, I discovered the oven wasn't working.  I hadn't really used it for a week as I wasn't cooking, so I'm not sure what happened.  Todd came home and checked it out, me thinking that maybe the pilot was out.  Nope.  Todd said we needed a new stove...wasn't fixable.  My 45 or so year old Magic Chef stove, which I liked to brag that they didn't make like that anymore had died.  When I came to Todd's house for the first time, the appliances in Todd's kitchen impressed me...Here is a guy, I thought, who doesn't get rid of things just because they're old.  Hey, I was going through a divorce and I was a little emotional!! :)

So we went to Lowe's last Monday morning and picked out the least expensive gas stove.  At $460.  What?  Man, the next one up cost almost $700.  And for the life of me, I couldn't figure out what made it $240 better.

That night, I cooked the last meal on the old stove.  Hot meat sauce.

Ah, the old timer we had to unpug because it would randomly go off.

No more lighting each burner each time I use it!

I have no idea why this is sideways.  Ugh. But it's taking me so long to figure out all my new I-technology, if I waited until I fixed this, I'd never get this out!  So here it is.  The new stove.  The digital controls are different and you can just turn the knob and it lights!  It's kind of the 2013 version of our old stove, which I like.  And there is a broiler in the bottom, which cooked some great steak last night.