Hi Sue. I love to cook, but when I do, I mess up all the pots
and pans in the house. Then I hate to (warsh) them. Yesterday
I made a green bean casserole and dressing and a green salad.
I invited my son and his and my oldest daughter over. I want you
to know that I only got a very small helping and its gone.
When I get back tomorrow, will make some more.

If you had a dishwasher you would put off emptying it. I get that feeling sometimes, but Mr. Tbend assigned himself the emptier and second the cycle is done he's in there putting stuff away. I keep a supply of paper plates and cups in the rental cabins to encourage the renters to have fewer dishes to wash in hopes of sparing the septic systems.

I'm still here to read your posts, even though you don't reciprocate. Just teasing. I had a new dishwasher put in last Jan. Guess how many times I've used it? Twice!! As for Obama and his cabinet:

I feel your pain, sister! Even though I've been spoiled by a dishwasher for a long time, whenever I pull out an iron skillet, a little voice says to me, "You know you're gonna have to wash that by hand, don't you?" It makes me cringe.

Ah, Sue, I feel for you about the dishes. At least it's your own dishes. In New York we didn't have a dishwasher in our apartment. Well, we did, but you had to move it over to the sink and reconnect it so Ed and his late wife only used it after a big party. Ed eats throughout the day. We had a tiff over me being his short-order cook (get real) and now he does his own snacks, but the dishes are my job. That's okay. He's not as thorough as me. And the dishwasher is my lifesaver. I run it at night when I hope he's finished, but sometimes in the morning I find more dishes but they are in the fridge (another rule -- don't leave anything out for the bugs). Try not waiting, then you won't have an accumulation.