Ironic....me thinks....

See how lovely this looks?

How quiet....serene....calm...?

Ironic.

The sweetie and I spent last evening looking quite a bit like the

Keystone Kops....

(not a look I would advocate)

You see...

as I checked on the laundry yesterday afternoon...

I discovered that the load, which had been

tumbling

for

hours.....

was wet.

The dryer passed away from exhaustion.

And

the washer

has been complaining,

for months....

that she is

carrying the load....

(sorry!)

Yes..

the washer, bless her heart,

has been struggling along on one cycle

for over a year.

She's over it.

Well,

after a trip to the local Lowe's,

to make arrangements for a new duo...

we started to think about the

configuration of the laundry room,

and the fact that we had just commited to

a new set,

that was considerably larger

than the funerary couple.

HOLY COW!

when we arrived home and started to

measure (that's what engineers do)

and visualize (that's what photographers do)

we realized that

we were cornered.

Literally.

We had to find a new place for the

refrigerator, left over from our

kitchen redo.

and

that meant

taking off it's doors,

and taking out all the contents...

and moving it down the hall to a

storage closet filled with chairs.

Oh, did I mention that I had

wet laundry sitting around waiting for

it's turn in the tumbler?

After a break

to dry laundry at the parents,

(who served us tuna casserole, how lucky are we!)

we came home...

to still another

storage problem...

what to do with the

eight dining room chairs

that had previously been stored in the

closet where the fridge now hummed contentedly....

and

make the guest room beds that were waiting for the

newly dried sheets....

and

 find a place for the microwave, whose only use is to

pop popcorn during football games....

Yes...

it was like dominoes.

move one..

and

well...

you know.

smiles.