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We had a little weather yesterday.  If the new washer and dryer are delivered tomorrow, I will test them out with the clothes that got so muddy on our walk through the neighborhood. 

I talked to my dad just before his father’s funeral service. Most of my extended family was there, in Texas.  I couldn’t make the trip, so my little family and I took down the tree and packed away the decorations.  I snuck under the covers to cry a few times, too, but each time I was jumped on and tickled by someone little and reminded that I need to be with them, not sniveling in my bed. 

We finally got the washer and dryer thing figured out, so of course today the van wouldn’t start when I needed it to bring me home.  Hopefully it is the battery.  Maybe the alternator.  I seem to be incapable of owning a car that just works.  I need to learn the lesson from that so I can have working cars.  Maybe that attitude is what has me stuck here, though.  I ought to go do the dishes and make sure the laundry area is as clean as it can be.  I want the new stuff to feel loved so it will work happily.  (Just don’t tell the dryer that my dream dryer is this one.)

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  1. TitanKT

    You all look so happy. I always love your pictures.

    A few years ago I bought myself a brand new washer and dryer with my tax refund. I remember being SO THRILLED and then immediately thinking how OLD I’d become getting all geeked out over a washer and dryer.

    I’m even older now… I get geeked out over ice.

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  2. Dixie

    Nice washer and dryer! Use them in good health and few grass and blood stains.

    That obit for your grandfather made me get all teary. The more I read about him the more I think he must have been just the grooviest guy. He sounds like the sort of old gentleman I would have adored talking to for hours.

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