After waiting for about three hours for the same load to dry and even after removing half of it and stringing it across the line on the porch... nine year old Bethany finally came to me with her tale of whoa.
"Mummy - I fear your dryer might be broken. What will we do? My clothes are still not dry and not even the towels I hung on the clothes line on the porch are dry. "
Small wonder given the humidity we are suffering these days.
Now my faithful machine has been grumbling of late, in a high pitched sort of way. Something reminiscent of the whine of racing car tires on hot pavement until it slowly settles into a low rumble that fades away. Every day - it takes just a little longer for it to fade. So when Bethany broke the news of the lingering damp clothes that were just refusing to dry I resigned myself to the idea that the dryer was finished, capoot, DEAD
Well - I decided to pull out the dryer and make sure nothing had fallen on the vent. Lo and behold - it was crunched up so tight a spider would have been challenged to get through it never mind pounds of hot air trying to escape to the great wide outdoors.
I rearranged things took a deep breath and turned the dryer back on and presto - dry clothes 40 minutes later. So to all who opted to pray that my dryer would miraculously repair itself - thank you. To all who were praying that I am somehow able to miraculously afford a new set of stackable front loading environmentally friendly laundry machines, please feel free to continue in that vein. After all, one never knows when my poor old loyal dryer actually will give up the ghost.
God Bless you all and all joking aside - thank you very much for your prayers.
3 comments:
Yeah!!!
We had a similar situation a few days ago. Somehow a squirrel got into our transformer outside and caused the electricity to go out in our house and a few of the neighbors for several hours. When it came back on, the dryer wasn't working for some reason. We're doing cloth diapers now and I really needed to wash a load. I don't know what he did, but Ken figured it out - after turning the electricity on and off again a few times.... :)
tale of whoa! hahahaha
Hi!
I just finished reading your story in Family Foundations. Good for you!
I see a lot of my husband and I in your description of your husband and yourself as newlyweds, dreaming of the perfect names, sexes, and number of children. Terry and I have talked about these things late at night, heads on pillows, mixing reality with the dream-world we are about to slip into in sleep. We both dream of a "large" family, but right now, the number is nebulous. We've only been married 6 weeks. :P As you and your husband likely did, the number will be determined as we go along.
Reading your "about me" side bar, I see we have a lot of the same interests, too. I really enjoy writing, and just recently put to paper my conversion story, which I gave to family, friends, and classmates. I've had mixed responses, but my Catholic friends say I'm right on target.
God bless!
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