“Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together”….Carl Zwanzig
Do y’all ever just wonder “why” sometimes?
I do. I want somebody to tell me why appliances and major plumbing lines only break on weekends, holidays, or in a snowstorm? Sometimes it’s all three together. Things only break when your chances of getting a repairman are as slim as a snowball’s chances in Texas.
Our New Year started out with a broken washing machine. I sure do hope that’s not some kind of omen! It stopped halfway through the cycle of washing my underwear. Now, that’s an insult, if ever there was one. The machine would agitate, but it wouldn’t rinse or drain. I mean to tell you that I was a little stirred up about it all.
Mr. Tucker was still asleep. I didn’t want to wake him with the bad news, so I waited, quite impatiently I might add, for his slumber to cease on New Year’s Day. Actually, I sat on the end of the bed staring at him — willing him to wake — just like the cats do to me every morning.
Of course when he woke up there was nothing he could do about it on a holiday, so I gave him a reprieve until yesterday. Bless his heart, that man worked on the washing machine for the better part of the day. There was a switch that had gone bad, and of course Sears doesn’t carry the part in stock. You have to order it on-line. But, I needed a washing machine.
Fortunately, Mr. Tucker is a very resourceful man! With a fistful of zip ties and some duct tape, he can work miracles. He was able to repair the machine without any parts left over.
Go on. I know you want to tell me something that you wonder about. And, you know I want to hear it.
And, yes, I have clean underwear, thank you.
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I wonder which plug in is creating your snow as I need snow and cannot sit all day on your blog watching yours.
But my biggest wonder is why the perfect home/villa always seems to be somewhere other than within traveling distance?
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I didn’t mean to make you have blog envy
I know the answer to your “wonder why:” Because the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence!
Is that the answer your grandmother would give?
My washing machine broke recently. It required a little more than duck tape to fix it. We are so lucky to have handymen around.
On the subject of duct tape, SRC got a duct tape wallet several years ago. Nerdy as it is he’s finally using it, his old leather wallet finally broke as well.
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Duct tape wallet! You make me laugh. Actually, my dentist and her kids were trying to make some of the medicine bags out of duct tape…but they got it twisted, and gave up. It’s great stuff–until you get it wrapped around yourself.
The washer dissed you and your underwear. Bwahahahahaha. I think it’s a riot. My hat is off to your hubby by the way.
Have a terrific weekend. Big hug.
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That washer “hung me out to dry!” Aw shucks. I’m getting used to that kind of “dissing.”
Yep. Hats off to the big guy, for sure. I don’t know what I would have done without him!
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