Wednesday, 23 February 2011

• The new member of our family!

  I think that's the last of them.
  
  Hubby hauled out the old and busted washer.  Left an awful watery mess on the floor that I mopped up.  I don't really like this room, and don't spend much time in it.  So mopping it?  Hasn't happened pretty much since the old owners mostly cleaned out the house.  Seven years ago.
  
  
  
  
  Hey, what do you know.  Turns out we did have a drain in this room. 
  
  A really awful drain that needs to be redone and that isn't sloped properly.  Sigh.  I'd love to get Mike Holmes into our house.  Love.
  
  
  Ooooh.  Shiny.
  
  
  
  That lid?  Does the slow-close thing.  So minimal smashed fingers. 
  
  Shiny!!  And see that?  No you don't!  No agitator to easier rip apart clothes.  Totally neato.
  After you load it and close it, it locks and does this little shimmy-shake bunny hop thing to evenly distribute the load.  I guess if you haven't been doing laundry for over 20 years it could be more useful than I forsee that being here, but eh.  Whatever.  It's fun to watch.
  
  It has blue lights.  And a cute little song when you turn it on, and little beeps when you push buttons.  It has a 'good' beep if your selections work, and a 'bad' little beep if you try to push soak with the sanitize cycle.  Ahem. Not like I've done that already. 
  
  See through lid!  That's a giant (giant!) load of towels in there, swishing away.
  
  
  And here's something simultaneously cool and creepy.  If you call their certain help/repair line, push a button or two, hold up your phone to the washer, and it talks to the service rep to tell you what's wrong with the washer.  Duuude.    Wow.
  
  
  
  
  Little did I know that washing machines still partly come in boxes. 
  
  So of course we let them have the box.
  
  
  The other two stole off with the styrofoam pieces.
  
  They're driving a "car."  I now need to vacuum the basement.
  
  
  A few realizations today.  One, that the door to the homeschool room shall be going away.  It totally opens/brightens up the room when it's gone.  Score.
  
  
  Second, since I've learned this washing machine does freakin' huge loads?  I need to get my hubby to make a fabulous (but narrower) clothesline along these lines to hang from the ceiling there in front of the stove (lower it to put laundry on, raise to dry, and raise higher to sit almost against the ceiling when dormant).  I can't put furniture there anyway.  Plus since I'm not getting a new dryer (not for a year or two or three, whatever, our old one works so I'm not complaining), I want to be able to keep up with the big washer loads.
  
  
  

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