The first near fatalitiy of the Halloween Season....

So I have to admit tonight I am pretty proud of myself. When we remodeled the house about a year ago, we bought all new appliances and made the monthly sales quotas for the wonderful people at Boyle's Appliance Center. However, our new dishwasher had some problems. Boyles sent out a nice young man that fixed our dishwasher a total of four times. At this point the dishwasher wasn't even old enough to be dirty let alone be on it's 3rd motor replacement. We may have gotten a lemon I don't know. Boyle's did a good job at servicing the sale and we will always buy our appliances there-just probably not another Amana.....I digress.

So tonight, the terrible deep and diabolical growl that would wake a bear from hibernation manifested itself once more. The first 4 visits were under warranty but after the first year we are all alone for the bill. Every time I watch these guys work on my appliances I kick myself for not having the gumption to tear the thing down myself. I think of myself as a pretty handy guy....

So, I decided that I would try to fix it myself tonight. I torn the whole thing apart, down to the motor and found our little friend the pumpkin seed. We carved our pumpkins for the party tomorrow night and apparently a couple slipped in the dishwasher. Who knew a little seed could make such a ruckus?! So here I sit, with no extra screws, plastic parts or major injuries feeling so very proud to add a project to my very short list of projects that have gone as planned with no swear words or midnight trips to Home Depot.