We’re getting a dishwasher, my dad’s Christmas gift to us, and I couldn’t be more excited.\u00c2\u00a0 For the past almost four years, Jim and I have been grumpily washing our dishes by hand, often procrastinating until there’s a large stack of dirty dishes on the counter.\u00c2\u00a0 On those hot and humid summer days (we don’t really use our air conditioner), washing dishes becomes just plain nasty.\u00c2\u00a0 And it can even be pretty unpleasant in the winter, when the woodstove is cranked up high.\u00c2\u00a0 But not much longer, because the dishwasher has been paid for and ordered, and Jim is busy reconfiguring the cabinets to make room for that lovely beast.<\/p>\n
We gained new respect for another\u00c2\u00a0bit of automation\u00c2\u00a0recently, when our washing machine needed repairs and we were without it for three weeks (including the week that my sister was visiting us).\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not that laundromats are so bad, because there are actually some advantages of going to the laundromat, most notably that you can get your laundry done in one fell swoop.\u00c2\u00a0 But when your towels get smelly mid-week, and you can’t take the time to go to the laundromat, there’s nothing more lovely than being able to pop down to the basement and run a load.\u00c2\u00a0 When our machine was finally fixed last Friday, I was so inspired by its renewed presence in our lives that I actually tackled all those laundry odds and ends that accumulate in a stack by the washer:\u00c2\u00a0 the random red items that will stain everything else, and so get put to the side – the old curtains that we used as dropcloths during a project – the pesky woolen washables.\u00c2\u00a0 All clean now.<\/p>\n
Automation rocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We’re getting a dishwasher, my dad’s Christmas gift to us, and I couldn’t be more excited.\u00c2\u00a0 For the past almost four years, Jim and I have been grumpily washing our dishes by hand, often procrastinating until there’s a large stack of dirty dishes on the counter.\u00c2\u00a0 On those hot and humid summer days (we don’t … Continue reading The joys of automation<\/span>