Patti, If that kitchen of yours is big enough for a claf to walk arounf, mooing (sorry to bring up our recent loss) I would think you'd have room for a portable dishwasher. I had one & loved being freed up. My hands also loved it. I had severly cut my hand on a broken glass in the water, cut the artery on a holiday with DH in New Jersey & I was home with 2 little ones in New Hampshire. Company from church was coming & I had to be driven to the hospital as I couldn't get the bleeding to stop. My first experience with stitches & one area wasn't numb - 4 great big eyes watching everything that was going on! L-shaped scar right over the knuckle of my right index finger - 7 stitches. Did you all know that it is really hard to tie a stitch back once it has come undone?