HOT LAUNDRY in Postcards 4
- May 8, 2019, 3:03 p.m.
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Hot Laundry: Acrylic and Pastel.
I have to admit that I am really grateful not to wash my laundry and hang it out on the line in 100 some degree heat as my grandma did. My mother insisted that all our laundry be dried outside in the sun and warm sea air. But she didn’t do it. The housekeeper did it.
Me. My fifteen year old washing machine died last Friday. It had Friday’s laundry in it, washed, full of soap, but unrinsed. We removed the clothes, wrung them out, and popped them in the dryer. G called the repair folks. They came out Monday, and decided that it was not the motor. Oh, hurrah. They left us waiting for the part.
George went to work.
I bagged last week’s laundry including the sheets, Grabbed HP-6, and got George to drive me to the corner laundromat. Thank you G. There I was faced with massive construction, cute new, gay owners, and all new massive machines. Frankly, they were almost beyond me.
When we got home, there were the dried soapy clothes forgotten in the dryer.
This morning I bagged up the semi soapy but dried clothes and headed to the laundromat.
“Oh, you’re back,” said one of the owners with a smile.
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- Himself: At work except for two trips to the corner laundromat.
- Myself: Finding myself in a domestic day.
- Photo: Mine.
- Reading: Harry Potter 6…the last one.
- Gratitude’s: George has to be tired of running me hither and yon.
Marg ⋅ May 08, 2019
What a hassle! Glad you were able to go back with the second lot - it must have felt like the old 'washing days' of our ancestors! :)
MageB Marg ⋅ May 09, 2019
Or mine when I had two babies. LOL
Marg MageB ⋅ May 10, 2019
Yes! :)
aunty EM ⋅ May 09, 2019
You got me thinking of a poem I wrote years ago about Grandma's laundry/ mine. Maybe I'll dig that out and post it....
MageB aunty EM ⋅ May 09, 2019
Yes, please.
NorthernSeeker ⋅ May 09, 2019
Isn't it a shock to find out how expensive it is to do laundry in a Laundromat?
MageB NorthernSeeker ⋅ May 09, 2019
Yes, it was a bit of a shock, but boy those big machines got things clean.
Deleted user ⋅ May 10, 2019
I am so spoiled that the thought of having to go to the laundromat now makes me cringe . Plus I am in the habit of doing laundry every day ; it seems like stuff always needs washed and I don’t like it accumulating. Our home association does not allow clothes lines . :-( . I wish they did .
MageB Deleted user ⋅ May 10, 2019
Neither does ours.