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A day of unplanned nonsense

03:13, Friday, February 22, 2008 .. Posted in Just Thinking .. 1 comments .. Link

This was going to be another day of planned sewing, but my plans were thwarted by a brief snow storm that has left the roads up near my mother's house icy. At first, this seemed like a terrible thing, since having time to sew is both a necessity and a luxury. When I "make time" for it, you can believe it is as important as a birthday party. It's an event! Besides, if I couldn't go somewhere and sew today, what else could I do around here that would not wake up my husband?

Well, my husband arrived home this morning later than usual because of road conditions, and then we had planned to pick up one of our vehicles from the repair shop. When we came back from that errand, he asked me if I wanted to go look at exterior doors with him so we could pick out a new back door. It seemed best to do it today since the shop's hours are limited tomorrow. By the time we conquered the door-a-thon, my husband had another appointment he needed to keep, and we still needed to call about service for the appliances. So as it turned out, the day has been anything but the unproductive mess I thought it was going to be.

And I did call for service on both the stove and the dryer, and someone is coming out Monday! Hurrah!

There seem to be quite a few people who fret how technology has "complicated" things, and has made things harder or more difficult. But having grown up with limited technology, I really enjoy much of what it has to offer. We never had a clothes dryer when I was a child. Sometimes, I would tag along with a friend whose mother had one and would use those perfumed fabric sheets, which I found mystifying. Anyway, they didn't seem to have the worries we did about frozen clothing that never dried and the neighbor's dog who would jump the fence, snatch our items off of the line, and drag them through dirt so they would be rewashed.

I had heard of dishwashers, but we surely never had one, and I never even saw one up close until well into my twenties when I house-sat for a well-to-do couple who owned conveniences that seemed incredibly glamorous at the time, but were probably quite mainstream for the upper income brackets. The lady showed me how to operate the dishwasher and I must have ran it (needlessly) three times that day because it was such a novelty. When my mother moved into a house that had one installed, I convinced her it was worth using, and instructed my forty-something year old mother on how to run a dishwasher. Guess what she can't live without now?

While we will never be the family that runs out to buy the newest and latest that technology has to offer, once you've lived without, you can appreciate "living with".

I won't even get into that one place we lived that only had an outhouse...
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06:09, Friday, February 22, 2008 .. Posted by Agsd7
Haha, I'm giggling at the "door-a-thon" comment and also at the frozen clothes.

I am opposite to you right now. I have recently gone from all the "technology" to practically none. We've had our share of frozen clothes already. :) And for some reason, my kids enjoy washing dishes more by hand than loading and emptying the dishwasher, go figure.

~Alie

***Good luck with your adventure, Alie! I don't miss the frozen clothes, but I still do many dishes every day by hand as well. It's a nice family activity to do so when you have children.***

Edited by Mennobrarian on Saturday, February 23, 2008 at 09:13

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