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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Getting back to basics.

It has been, without a doubt, a challenging summer here so far. Oh, we're all healthy and happy, etc., except for one thing.

We kill appliances.

First, the hot water heater thought it required intensive care i.e. a new element. That necessitated several service calls before it was fixed.

Then the fan motor on our water source heat pump went out. A week later. In the middle of hot, humid, mid-summer Mid-Missouri. Within the first 2 hours of the first visit with the second company we consulted, we had a fan motor ordered and a deal made. They came out, installed and we've been good to go since Monday.

Did I forget to mention the dead dryer? That gave it up the day before Jim left for a 9-day backpacking trip in CO. The replacement "is on the way in 5-7 days" so Jim put a clothesline up for me yesterday and I used it for the first time today.

Now I feel all earthmothery and slightly crunchy, which isn't a bad way to feel at all. I just didn't know a clothesline would be the thing to do it for me. The one thing I couldn't figure out, though, was how Barbara Billingsly could do this wearing heels?

2 comments:

Meghann said...

Welcome to the dark side. Mwahahahahahahahahahaha!

Jim said...

I think you minimized the saga of the appliances! Stove, water heater (running on one element for weeks), A/C out for almost a month, and THEN the dryer...We have gremlins!