May 07 2010
Old & New
Since it’s May and everything, I figured I’d be safe in leaving the heat off at night and the orchid outside. As usual, I was wrong.
I woke up yesterday to find that it was 35 degrees outside and 46 inside. I put on another sweater and turned on the heat. I figure one of these days I’ll wake up and it will be 80 degrees, and that will be that until it starts being winter again. If it rains again before November, that muffled thud you hear will be my head exploding and then falling off.
By noon, the temperature was about 30 degrees higher, and there was a flatbed truck making its way down the driveway. I went out to investigate and discovered that it was delivering a new (to me) washing machine! The driver unloaded it and Mark and I checked it out. The highlight for me is that the agitator is actually attached to the inside of the washer, so it won’t agitate me by flying off mid-wash and sounding like the whole thing is going to take off. Also I imagine its clothes-eating abilities will be limited by this.
Mark will take away the old one and install the new one sometime this weekend. I can’t wait to use it, though I expect the thrill of doing laundry will wear off pretty quickly.
As the driver got ready to leave, I said it must have been tough driving that heavy truck down the narrow, pothole-ridden driveway, and he smiled and said he’d seen worse, which boggled my tiny mind.
In other exciting news, the boys have a line on a 75 year old tractor which quite possibly might work. After all, it worked less than a decade ago, so it might just need some parts and persuasion. The price is right, since it’s free, and it’s just down the road. Hopefully the boys can get it up and running so we can start on a vegetable garden at the family property.