laundry | laundry
Mar.29.2013
I am happy to report the search is over: I found my missing sock.
We can breathe easy now.
If you were part of the search committee, thank you. Thank you also to those who brought food so I wouldn't have to cook during this stressful time.
And it was stressful.
According to the 2012 U.S....
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Jan.21.2013
What happened here?
Did I lose my keys in the blackberries again?
Should I have ponied up the sixty bucks and let the vet check my cat's prostate instead?
Who scratched up that dinosaur foot?
You know what happens when you assume. What you're seeing portrayed in the image above is...
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Dec.10.2012
I smelled like vitamins all last week. There may be more fragrant vitamins out there, but mine smell really nasty. It's not a good scent to be wearing around.
I'm forever fishing things out of pockets when I do the laundry. I can always tell what my children are eating, outside...
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Apr.24.2012
The last few times I’ve been at the laundry, I’ve especially noticed a few different younger couples and their approach. It seems that the women usually fall into a pattern of giving the men precise instructions while the men listen, rather than taking the lead, or expressing that they’ve got it....
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Feb.19.2012
Yesterday my significant other and I helped his cousin and her husband move. They had plenty of help the days preceding and now it was our turn. He helped the husband with the large heavy items and I helped his cousin get the rest of her closet boxed up and bagged little items that still lay around...
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Nov.23.2011
This Is Not My Sock is a new collection of essays by award-winning writer,
Eva Schlesinger.
An anthology of writings about washing and drying clothes, this valuable
book will sure to be a favorite among even the most reluctant readers.
It includes such chapters as
1)...
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Aug.25.2011
She reached up in the repetitive task, clothespin to cloth, cloth next to cloth, clothespin to cloth, down the line. One by one she lined up the shirts, the t-shirts, the ones with collars, then the boxers from prints to blue, then her undies by hue from pink to black. It was their special private...
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Mar.03.2011
Returning from taking in a roast and veggies to Katherine’s family, I got a phone call from Gerald who had been trying to reach me on my cell phone. He said our granddaughter Erin was coming over and wanted to take us out to supper, but he told her just to stop by and bring a pizza out to the farm...
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Feb.11.2010
Like all of you I have a myriad of day to day chores, most of which I'd like to wriggle my nose at and make go away. But Samantha is no longer with us and even if she was it's still our problem not hers. Each day the choices sits before me like they were written on a chalkboard: start the laundry...
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Nov.19.2009
CAUGHT IN MY UNAWARES
There’s quite a fight going on in Pennsylvania. It seems the local officials have complained the Carin Froelich has been hanging her laundry outside to dry. She has strung a line between two trees outside her 18th century farmhouse. Apparently this is a fight across the...
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