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    Grandma’s Desert Rose

    Last week, we got busy with the demolition of our old bathtub in preparation for the plumber, who was coming to install the new bathtub. Have you ever demoed a cast iron bathtub? It’s not for sissies. But that’s a story for another day. I promise. Anyway, with all of the pounding and wall-shaking that resulted from our first attempt at the demo (you read that correctly: FIRST attempt), I thought it might behoove us to remove the dishes from the kitchen cabinets, which are on the other side of the wall from the bathtub. The cabinets containing our everyday dishes (an homage to our time in Knoxville, Tennessee, just…