Laundry and Spring Break and Blogging, Oh My
March 25, 2009 By: almostgotit Category: UncategorizedThe washing machine breaks, the relatives visit, the kids have vacation for a week, the husband goes to Europe.
All at the same time.
Then suddenly it’s March 25th and no one is reading your blog any more because you haven’t posted anything on it.
Still don’t have a washing machine, but the relatives have left, the kids are back at school, and the husband has returned to help load the dishwasher.
Things are improving.
Yesterday evening, though, there was a sound from the kitchen like all the dishes falling out of the cupboard, not once but repeatedly. The dog was “helping” the husband load the dishwasher by “pre-rinsing” the especially tasty bits, and got his collar stuck on the dish rack. Then he tried to get away.
Have I mentioned how strong our dog is?
Pieces of the dishwasher flew in all directions. As did pieces of our dishes, as Jerry the Rhodesian Fridge Snack dragged the fully-loaded rack out of the dishwasher, out of the kitchen, and half way around the dining room, yelping in terror the whole time.
“Loud” doesn’t even cover it. And we’re still picking shards of pottery out of the ceiling.
Things are getting back to normal, in other words, and I was tired of that china pattern anyway.
March 25th, 2009 at 11:57 am
I am soooooo sorry, but I am, er, howling at your misery! Glad you’re back!
March 25th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Sounds like a scene from Marley and Me, only betta~
March 25th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
You made me chuckle. He sounds like our Faye who is particularly fond of eating walls!
March 25th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Hey, I’m reading!
And, wow. You can’t, as they say, make this stuff up. Did you think to take a photo or video? You didn’t? What were you thinking?
Oh, yeah, you were trying to catch the dog……
March 25th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Hey- we have the flowered pattern plates that your husband really liked- 8 big plates- you want them? (that would make a clean sweep through the r-girls)
March 25th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Oh, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry.
You really can’t make this stuff up!
March 25th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Thanks, ALTOS – I’m glad you’re back, too!
@True: I read the book, but haven’t seen the movie. I’m thinking that besides enjoying Owen Wilson, I would find it too frazzling.
@mrsdirtyboots: Faye eats WALLS? Oh my my my…
@WG: No photo. We need to install a security cam for these instant replay moments, clearly.
@Lil sis: I know exactly the plates of which you speak. I believe they came from a grocery store give-away in Canada. Or maybe Wyoming. If the latter, they’ve been through even more families than we thought.
@Pages: no, you really can’t! (though wish I *had*.)
March 26th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Poor Jerry! Kind of a sad comment on society, though, to think how easy it is to imagine that scene. Let alone laugh.
March 26th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
It’s the sort of thing you laugh about AFTERWARDS. After checking to be sure the dog wasn’t hurt, the dishwasher could be fixed, we still had some dishes left… and that the dog wasn’t hurt.
March 27th, 2009 at 10:24 am
Oh my gosh, this would have been an instant smash if you had it on video! It sounds like something Dennis would do — he’s always trying to lick the plates as I load the dishwasher.
March 28th, 2009 at 9:09 am
And yet . . . I check-in to see what’s goin’ on.
Dog, dishwasher, and plates would’ve been a fine video.
I think video, er, viblogdeos, are the future!
Kinda like a spontaneous “stupid pet trick.”
Have to get a better word first.
April 16th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
I was looking for your address and found your blog. I have to stop reading and laughing so I can get some work done. Five stars from this reviewer. And give Jerry a skritch from me.
January 28th, 2010 at 10:38 am
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