Before I left for work yesterday, I loaded towels into the washer and left it running. I like to run my washing machine and/or dishwasher late at night (bedtime) to help with peak usage (electrical) hours, so I figured if I washed the towels, I could dry them later that night.
When I opened the washer, the tub was still full of water, but it was on the rinse and spin cycle. I figured the load was imbalanced, move some things around and put the lid down. Nothing! Great! Just Great! Anyway, I did everything that I could think of to ‘fix’ the washer (without taking it apart…..cause lets not talk crazy here!!) LOL! When I realized that I wasn’t going to be able to fix it, I knew I had to remove the towels, and empty the water out of the washer manually. I took the towels out one by one and wrung them out by hand. Ok – remember I’m older and this hurt my hands after a while. Of course, by hand wringing, I couldn’t put them in the dryer because they would be too damp and heavy, so I threw them in the dryer just to store…until I could get all the towels wrung out.
I emptied out the (20 gallons) of water in the washer. Then I took the towels out of the dryer and laid them across the top of the agitator (that wasn’t agitating)….and sent Gregg a note letting him know we had issues with the washer. THIS is the replacement washer, an old heavy duty washer that we put in the washroom just two months ago because the last washer I had (for 11 years) was spewing water everywhere during the rinse cycle.
Prior to the washing machine adventure, I’d gone into the front bathroom and there in the bathtub was approximately 4 inches of water. One of the teens had taken a shower and the water didn’t run out. I didn’t have any Draino, so I grabbed the plunger and went to work. I suspect that if a plumber were to come out, he would find a glob of Band-Aids and possibly the spent heads to razors there. You see, one of the teens at my house does not bother to remove Band-Aids before getting in the tub, so I suspect they just travel down into the drain and she gets out with no afterthought or concern. She uses lots of band-aids because lately and I am pretty sure I’m accurate in my hypothesis because when I used the plunger last week on the tub…I found a Band-Aid stuck to the side of the tub. I’m hoping to get a plumbers ‘snake’ and work on this tub this weekend. Until then, Draino is my best bet…but with sticky Band-Aids…..I’m hoping a plumber’s visit isn’t in my future. If so –someone will have to cough up the dough to help pay the bill. Only way I know to teach a child to THINK about their actions and repercussions is to hit them where it hurts…..and that is the purse, the phone, the computer, and the car. Also – this is the child who throws things AT a trashcan. If they make it in the trash = Great!, If not, oh well….the maid (me) will pick them up at some point and time (ewwww). I swept up 5 used band-aids and their packaging last week, plus at least 6 Q-tips. Bathrooms are my least favorite rooms to clean. But the fact that she had staph infection made those band-aids a bio hazard.
So...more on this later.
I feel like before I can sell the house, I’m going to HAVE to replace the plumbing and probably the roof. The roof looks good and appears to be working well. I just can’t remember if it’s a 15 or 20 year roof. I hate being a grown up….I really really do!
Friday, September 30, 2011
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Storms, Persimmons and work.....
Well, I returned to work today after a very short (albeit a 3 day) weekend! It's reports week so I'm busy busy and having to add even more process stuff in to get it done.
So - what will I do tonight? Well, I'm only like 4 months behind on my financial accounts (reconciling, not paying)....so I think I will try to at least get that accomplished tonight. Tomorrow night (Depending on the weather) I will go to Macclesfield and help Dad clean up the yard. Those two massive oaks make the biggest mess during storms and during the normal leave dropping time of year. He needs the yard cleared so he can use his new mower to mow the fast growing lawn. With all this rain we're getting...storm after storm. AND I need to go out in my backyard and get more persimmons up. I've put a bunch of them in the freezer to process later. I hope to get them all processed and back in the freezer.
The process is pretty interesting. You have to wipe any dirt off of these small orbs of fruit and then you have to peel back the skin and take a 'nip' out of them to make sure they are ripe as not ripe = sour. This has to be done so that 'one bad apple doesn't spoil the whole bunch' kind of thing. Once this is done, then you have to 'mash' them up in a food mill, keep the pulp and put it in a container and in the freezer to use later. The skins and such are thrown away.
Well, I found out last night that you can put these little fellows unprocessed into your freezer and process them when you're ready. I'm all about that. LOL!
I awoke this morning and turned the TV on to the news as I usually do, however, there was Tornado activity in Eastern NC (yet again). I went to the Grocery Store on the way home (Dang I forgot to buy Deli turkey and the teens live off that). Anyway, I got soaked coming out from the Dollar Store (located beside the Food Lion). I'd gone in to get Chaos (the Red Nosed Pit Bull 40 pound puppy) a new toy. He's destroyed his others. I felt sorry for him last night chewing on the carcus of a small animal (cloth) that had lost all of it's stuffing (Thanks to Chaos)....So I gave him a rope with a ball on it and TADAH two hours later and he has already chewed the ball up. HA HA HA! Sad thing about the storms, heard tomorrow will be even worse for us.
Worries, Worries, Worries, Worries, Worries.... I sure do miss the good old days when I had fun and I had down time and I had a life. WHAT HAPPENED? Oh I remember....it's been one huge wicked roller coaster life since I can remember. I felt this way once before. After the flood (Floyd), when everyone's life went back to 'normal' and there was plenty and there was fun and there was a good life....and mine sucked! I was fixing things up, trying to keep it together, losing my mind and missing Megan's childhood. So - a decade later and I've gone through more than I thought I was capable.....but I'm not out of the woods yet. Oh please GOD help me keep it together one more year or less!!!
So - I'll go out to the car (Oh did I mention that since the storms weekend before last), we of course have these butt-holes coming into the neighborhood (cause we get discovered during times like this) and stealing from cars. I'm having to be very vigilant to make sure everything is kept locked up...and thank GOD for Chaos. When he barks, makes me feel good inside. Do I worry? I think whoever it is will stay outside and if they come in, well......judged by 12 works for me. And I will leave it at that. Anyway, I'll go get the rest of the groceries (non-perishables) I left during the storm and put them away.
So - I've got to get busy.....and get some things done because MY work is never done! I am so going to do GREAT things for myself when things get better!
So - what will I do tonight? Well, I'm only like 4 months behind on my financial accounts (reconciling, not paying)....so I think I will try to at least get that accomplished tonight. Tomorrow night (Depending on the weather) I will go to Macclesfield and help Dad clean up the yard. Those two massive oaks make the biggest mess during storms and during the normal leave dropping time of year. He needs the yard cleared so he can use his new mower to mow the fast growing lawn. With all this rain we're getting...storm after storm. AND I need to go out in my backyard and get more persimmons up. I've put a bunch of them in the freezer to process later. I hope to get them all processed and back in the freezer.
The process is pretty interesting. You have to wipe any dirt off of these small orbs of fruit and then you have to peel back the skin and take a 'nip' out of them to make sure they are ripe as not ripe = sour. This has to be done so that 'one bad apple doesn't spoil the whole bunch' kind of thing. Once this is done, then you have to 'mash' them up in a food mill, keep the pulp and put it in a container and in the freezer to use later. The skins and such are thrown away.
Well, I found out last night that you can put these little fellows unprocessed into your freezer and process them when you're ready. I'm all about that. LOL!
I awoke this morning and turned the TV on to the news as I usually do, however, there was Tornado activity in Eastern NC (yet again). I went to the Grocery Store on the way home (Dang I forgot to buy Deli turkey and the teens live off that). Anyway, I got soaked coming out from the Dollar Store (located beside the Food Lion). I'd gone in to get Chaos (the Red Nosed Pit Bull 40 pound puppy) a new toy. He's destroyed his others. I felt sorry for him last night chewing on the carcus of a small animal (cloth) that had lost all of it's stuffing (Thanks to Chaos)....So I gave him a rope with a ball on it and TADAH two hours later and he has already chewed the ball up. HA HA HA! Sad thing about the storms, heard tomorrow will be even worse for us.
Worries, Worries, Worries, Worries, Worries.... I sure do miss the good old days when I had fun and I had down time and I had a life. WHAT HAPPENED? Oh I remember....it's been one huge wicked roller coaster life since I can remember. I felt this way once before. After the flood (Floyd), when everyone's life went back to 'normal' and there was plenty and there was fun and there was a good life....and mine sucked! I was fixing things up, trying to keep it together, losing my mind and missing Megan's childhood. So - a decade later and I've gone through more than I thought I was capable.....but I'm not out of the woods yet. Oh please GOD help me keep it together one more year or less!!!
So - I'll go out to the car (Oh did I mention that since the storms weekend before last), we of course have these butt-holes coming into the neighborhood (cause we get discovered during times like this) and stealing from cars. I'm having to be very vigilant to make sure everything is kept locked up...and thank GOD for Chaos. When he barks, makes me feel good inside. Do I worry? I think whoever it is will stay outside and if they come in, well......judged by 12 works for me. And I will leave it at that. Anyway, I'll go get the rest of the groceries (non-perishables) I left during the storm and put them away.
So - I've got to get busy.....and get some things done because MY work is never done! I am so going to do GREAT things for myself when things get better!
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