Home improvement?

You're not Micky, and we're thankful for that.

Yep.

There are all sorts of latching cabinet hardware. I'd certainly have some if I lived in earthquake country.

We've had, if I recall correctly, three earthquakes here in my lifetime. At least, three that made the news. I didn't notice a darned thing for any of them.

Cindy Hamilton

If an earthquake prevents it from opening you may have other, more important, concerns. Such as getting the refrigerator out of the big crack in the floor.

Luckily, our fridge is in the part of the house that's over a crawlspace. So it won't have too far to fall. Perhaps the olive jar will survive and we can still have martinis.

Cindy Hamilton

Olives are an awful thing to do to good gin. If you must flavor your drink, use a twist of lemon peel.

I put our sink in the corner on purpose . The area behind it is a great location for a few house plants ... especially since there are 2 windows behind the sink . One faces north and the other faces west . Both look out on the woods that surround the house .

I'm actually vanishingly unlikely to ever drink a martini. I hate hard liquor and will only drink it if it's really diluted. Even most wines are too harsh with the taste of alcohol.

But olives are among the few things that are in a glass jar in the fridge. Anchovies are in glass, but I figured after an earthquake a martini made a better joke than anything with anchovies.

Cindy Hamilton

I read about a refrigerator that was tossed around during an earthquake, the jar of anchovies broke, and they crawled out and dirtied up every room in the house.

I read it on Infowars.

Don't you be disrespectin' anchovies, lady. They're my favorite pizza topping!

I like anchovies, or I wouldn't have a jar of them in my fridge. Just not on pizza. Mainly on salads or in pasta puttanesca.

Cindy Hamilton

Spaghetti ala hooker?

Yep. That's the translation.

Cindy Hamilton

In Guatamala one afternoon, we were by a school for children, and one or two of them taught us all the dirty Spanish words. I couldn't remember any because I was trying mostly to remember words I could actually use, except someone, a kid or someone, taught us hijo de la gran puta, a popular expression there, or so he said. Not a recipe, just an insult. And no cognate in English afaik, which is fairly unusual.

Cindy may be right. There is some Italian I remember: sei una bella puttana

All of them sound like medical terms for certain girlie-parts...

Hence the bonus if you can break that mold.

Much skilled labor is comming from Mexico. Cheap also.

Bingo. Her crews were pretty much all Latino except the HVAC people and the plumbers. They were old rednecks.