Living the Simple Life

Cold weather and the laundry

Good Morning, it is a cold morning here in IL today it is only 24 so far this morning and this weather gives us a taste of winter that will all too soon be here. The corn stoves are making the house nice and toasty and I am glad to be back inside form doing my critter chores this morning.

 I always hang my laundry outside as long as possible for two reasons one being I love the way fresh laundry smells after hanging outside in the breeze and 2 because it is free to dry them in the sunshine. My dryer hardly ever gets used in the summer but yesterday was the first day I used the dryer since spring. I was making headway getting the pile of laundry done up when I thought to myself that dryer doesn’t sound right for some reason or another. I went into the laundry room and felt the top of the dryer and it was warm, but when I glanced into the drum of the dryer I found the problem, it wasn’t turning! Welcome to Monday was all I could say!  My dryer is only 3 years old as we got a new set when we moved in here I was upset but determined to fix the dern thing. I did some looking on the internet (for instructions) and went into the laundry room armed with a nut driver, a screw driver and a putty knife. Well for those of you that fix things yourself you already knew I had broken a belt. After an n hour or so of trial and error I finally got the belt on the dryer and had it back together. I was very proud of myself for fixing the dryer so I could get back to the business of laundry. When my husband got home I told him he dryer had broke and he was about to head out to the garage to get some tools and start working on it, when I said “let me show you something.” I took him to the basement and turned on the dryer and he just looked at it and said” I hope you didn’t call a repairman, they are really expensive.” I handed him the package the belt had come out of and said “why yes I did as a matter of fact and her name was Shannon!”  There truly is a sense of satisfaction at being self sufficient in many different ways!

 Have a great Tuesday and don’t forget to count your blessings today!

Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program. -- Spencer W. Kimball, 1976

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02:40, Thursday, October 30, 2008 .. Posted by wannabeone

Congratuations on fixing your dryer! Woohoo!!! In our homeschool I start my girls on their high school level academics in 8th grade, that way, by the time they are in their Senior year (which our 'baby' is this year :-( ) we spend the bulk of the year concentrating on life skills. You would be amazed at what you can find at www.thisoldhouse.com!

I begin their life skills training around 9th grade and through those years they are putting together a manual that they can take with them into THEIR home someday. :-)

I know what you mean about hanging out the laundry. I'm a wah-wah so I've already started in cold weather in-door drying. But yesterday, I noticed our little old man/widower neighbor hanging out all his white skivvies - bless his heart - I hope he let them warm up before he put them on! lol

Blessings from Ohio, Kim Wolf<><