The sweet sweet smell of clean clothes
posted in General |Thanks to K and C, we have a new clothes washer. They bought a new house and moved their washer/dryer. Which means I’m no longer lugging six loads of laundry to the ‘mart. It’s amazing how many clothes we have around here. 
Thanks K!
It was one of those times where everything’s coming together. We had a dead washing machine in the basement. We had a dead Christmas tree in the living room. K and Cr were moving on a day Ms B was off from work, so I rented a u-Haul cargo van to take the trash to the dump and then help K move, and then bring home the washer. Well, it didn’t quite go ‘like buttah’; the first problem was that the U-Haul place had a $500 fee if pine needles had to be cleaned out of your rental (aiee!). I lugged the washer up the 15 steps out of the basement and ran it up a door to get it into the cargo van (My brother’s response to seeing my ramp? “Dude, that’s a ramp? It still has the doorknob!”). I threw some more crap into the van (some sodden rotten magazines, etc) and took it to the dump; 450 pounds of stuff (and a discount for recycling the washer?). After helping K move (hoping to save him some money on the mover bill), I lugged home the washer and thunked it down the 15 steps into the basement. Luckily I didn’t break it (grin: yeah I know I should have braced the tub. Sorry.) Amazingly, it ran!
