Showing posts with label Laundry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Laundry. Show all posts

07 December 2009

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.

06 August 2009

I'm so sorry....

But you have certainly seen the wedding dance...
But have you seen the divorce?
Well, I know it's morbid in a way....
But I laughed, thought you might too.
Still laughing....

29 July 2009

As I was reading, enjoying my cup o' joe....



I read this.......


Years ago an Alabama grandmother gave the new bride the following recipe:

This is an exact copy as written

and found in an old scrapbook - with spelling errors and all.

WASHING CLOTHES

Build fire in backyard to heat kettle of rain water.

Set tubs so smoke wont blow in eyes if wind is pert.

Shave one hole cake of lie soap in boilin water.

Sort things, make 3 piles

1 pile white,

1 pile colored,

1 pile work britches and rags.

To make starch,

stir flour in cool water to smooth,

then thin down with boiling water.

Take white things,

rub dirty spots on board, scrub hard, and boil,

then rub colored don't boil just wrench and starch.

Take things out of kettle with broom stick handle,

then wrench, and starch.

Hang old rags on fence.

Spread tea towels on grass.

Pore wrench water in flower bed..

Scrub porch with hot soapy water.

Turn tubs upside down.

Go put on clean dress,

smooth hair with hair combs.

Brew cup of tea, sit and rock a spell

and count your blessings.

Hang this over your washer and dryer

when you think things are bleak,

read it again, kiss that washing machine and dryer,

and give thanks.

First thing each morning

you should run and hug your washer and dryer,

also your toilet---

those two-holers used to get mighty cold!

(wrench means rinse. ;)

Well, my cup o' joe looked pretty darn good,
and I was relaxed,
and my laundry was doing itself, practically.....
at home, while I thanked all those "R&D" people at
GE, Whirlpool, Maytag.....
my life is blessed...
Smiles.