Dry Another Day

Last Tuesday found our family in high spirits. Rudy and I pranced around Jason while singing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow". (Ok, I pranced around and sang as I held Rudy...but Rudy DID add a few yawps of joy to the performance). And what, you may ask, could cause such a euphoric state in a home void of mind altering drugs? I'm glad you asked! Jason, our mighty, noble, insanely awesome leader of the pack fixed our dryer! HOORAY! Yipee! WaHOOO! Our eleven year old dryer stopped drying on Halloween. This is an exceptionally bad thing to happen in our home, since we cloth diaper, and only have enough diapers for 2 days of diapering before the cycle of cloth diapering life must play itself out again. A key component of that cycle is drying all the newly washed diapers. PLUS, our unit is a combined washer/dryer unit, so working on the dryer made the washer unavailable as well. Add to this the fact that we are presently swimming against a very strong financial current, and maybe you can begin to imagine the level of crisis we felt at no longer having a functioning dryer. Thankfully, we were scheduled to spend the weekend at my parents' house for Halloween, so we did plenty of laundry there, and then, Lauren, my wonderful neighbor and friend allowed me to use her washer and dryer on Monday to keep our cloth diapering world afloat. (Actually, she practically provided a laundering service...I dropped them off in the morning and by afternoon she was knocking on my door with my pristine diapers neatly folded in her arms. Thank you, thank you, thank you!) Jason, the great stud that he is, worked diligently at educating himself about all things dryer and tinkered with the old beast for hours on end until at last, it was revived! He did all this while going to school and work full time, and spent a mere $12.00 on the replacement part he installed. AMAZING, yes? He saved our family at least $100.00 by being the fix it man himself. Yea! That is why, Tuesday, the day that Jason restored the dryer to function, found our family in such high spirits. The End

This is actually a picture of Jason after working on our car. He was more linty than dirty while tinkering with the dryer, but I didn't get any pics of that. Too bad...he was like a grungy little lamb. he he. This picture gets the fix it man message across, though. :)