R.I.P., ya old fart...

The washing machine has indeed spun it's last.

After George futzed around under/in it, it worked again... kind of. As in: I got to do another load or two/two and a half... kind of.
Each "load" was approximately four or five pieces of clothing (which, in my personal opinion is a load... of CRAP. Nuthin' I'd rather do than hafta wash every single thing by itself... *rolls eyes*) and the second load had TWO WHOLE PAIRS OF JEANS (gasp!) as well as a t-shirt or two and even that was proving to be too much for it to spin correctly.
After screwing with it for about 15 minutes, trying to "help" it gain enough momentum to actually sling some water out the clothes, I said "fuckit" (yes, all one word) and threw 'em in the dryer damned near dripping. Had to dry 'em twice, but I got 'em done.

Third load, which I swear consisted of 3 things (I think it was one pair of jeans, a hoodie and a t-shirt), it refused to spin, pretty much. It went in circles, sure. But "spun"? As in "removed any water whatsoever"?
Nah.

But, I wasn't worried about it. There is, afterall, a stacked washer/dryer out in the garage we brought here with us. I was more "worried" about getting the guys to actually switch the machines, as there are steps involved and both of them were almost anemic yesterday, it being a day off and them being tired.

So, eventually, they wander out to the garage and I went on over to the horse farm.

I get back with an appliance dolly that Mr Boss happens to have (told ya's he's got every tool known to mankind) and the guys were in the garage with the stacked unit, looking pissed.

Well, this can't be good...

It wasn't.
Seems we dragged another washer that doesn't know "spin" all the way here with us. Wish we'd have checked that out back in Bucks. Then, when it didn't work, we coulda left it and maybe had room for some other shit that musta gotten left behind because I can't find it and am slowly replacing...

Anyway, this being a dairy farm that uses actual cloth towels as opposed to paper ones, this Boss has machines stacked in piles out there in the garage.
There are about 4 or 5 dryers and one washer.
Which just happened to be the exact same name-brand and model as the one I had that died... only WAY newer.

So, we "borrowed" that one.
(With the verbal aggreement amongst us that if the Boss needs it, we take it out to the parlor for him IMMEDIATELY and find another one, or just plain find him another one and put it in the garage for him...)

Meanwhile... got any idea how cool it is to just turn on a washing machine and it does the whole job by itself? The one that died has been being a pain in the ass for the last, like, 4 years because something ailed it and you'd have to go upstairs when it did it's first "spin" and physically turn the knob yourself to the next step to make it stop spinning and carry on the washing of the clothes. If you didn't, it'd spin forever.
THEN, once it got to the last spin, it'd spin for about 12 seconds and stop. So, you'd have to again traipse upstairs to spin the dial around to the "spin" in the "delicate cycle" and pull the knob and let it spin the clothes out there. (Why that was the only spin that worked is beyond me...)
AND, because it was the "delicate" spin, it didn't really spin 'em put all that well.

So, total pain in the ass every load...

Now, this one?
Woo hoo, man.

This one, ya throw in the clothes, add your soap, turn it on and HAVE A LIFE.
This one fills, spins, stops, starts and finishes all without a chaperone.
How cool is THAT?
(And, how pathetic has my life become that I'm actually excited about this shit?)

In other news... in addition to the $750.00 App that "got away", I was almost the dumbfounded owner of a thirty-five hundred dollar App. Seems Mr Boss had actually won the bidding on a second Appaloosa that wound up costing $3500 bucks. Then, a guy he's really good friends with asked if he could buy that horse from Mr Boss as he had someone who'd pay out the ass for him and Mr Boss let him do that because he wasn't sure how me and him were gonna work out me paying for the horse and, besides, this guy has done the same favor for him more'n once.

Man.

Now, however, Mr Boss knows how we're gonna do it (read: he gets me that fine a horse and I'm his SLAVE til it's paid off. That was my first offer and he seemed to find it acceptable.... *giggle* While we were discussing this, I said "Wow. Here I am, looking for a one-eyed (at least), four-legged (as opposed to the stupid mare), free App and there YOU are..." Mr Boss jumps in with, "Yeah. I know. But, if yer gonna have a horse, have a HORSE... a good one." I like how he thinks....) and he's going to another huge sale the first week of May (as in "right after my birthday, God, if yer listenin'...).

Plus, again, Mr Boss said I'll be back to work soon.
Meanwhile, I got to see SuperHorse, Mad William, the other stallion and everybody else and they all seemed to remember me and were glad to see me. Hell the pony even whinnied her ass off and ran around the paddock.
*smiling HUGE*

Now, I need to go back over there to return the appliance dolly, then go to the bank, then come home and... find something to do.

BUT FIRST, I need to finish waking up.
My head's awake, but my body... oof. Talk about "morning wood". That'd be my whole body. Stiff.
It's loosening up, though.

Well...
Off to the "library" now.
Back later.
Meanwhile...

Peace, y'all.

Posted by: Stevie at 09:51 AM

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