Oh my. That's the two words I'll use to describe last night's events. (Actually I could use several other words to describe it, but since I'm being good, those are the two that I've chosen!) I've said for a long time that my house has gremlins in it...and I fully believe it! Or at least, some kind of evil creature determined to cause havoc at the most inappropriate times. You've read my post about the shelf in Annah's room breaking with no real reason. Well, here's yet another crazy one. The washing machine overflowed last night. And I mean seriously overflowed. I had water in the laundry room, the kitchen, and seeping through the wall into the bedroom closet. I used every single towel that I could find to start mopping up the water, and it just wasn't enough.
What happens was this: for some unknown reason, the washer forgot to drain the water out of the barrel before refilling it for the rinse cycle. Which meant there was too much water. Waaaaaay too much water.
The little kids were still up - it was only about 7 p.m. Thankfully though, they'd already eaten, had baths, and were almost ready for bed. Matthew took them into his room while I started cleaning up the mess. The neighbors were kind enough to let me bring my half-finished load of laundry over and finish it there, then wash all the towels and stuff I'd used to mop up water too. Then I put the little kids to bed. Matthew came in and helped me put a garden hose in the washer and then went outside and sucked on the other end of the hose to get it to start draining. Once everything was done, we had a pile of laundry to be folded (it didn't get finished!), and a LOT of stuff to put back in the laundry room. I made the decision that since everything is torn apart, it's a good time to clean out and throw away stuff. So I'll work on that this afternoon. But Austin has been home this morning trying to figure it out, and can't find a thing wrong with that darn machine. He's even run a couple of small loads just to test it out.
See what I mean? Gremlins! Oh well....at least I'll get my laundry room cleaned out! There's a bright side to most everything.
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I think all appliances have evil gremlins living in them. And they are all wearing our socks. I picture the socks on their feet, hand, ears... anywhere that the socks will fit. My washer has done that about five times so believe me girl - I know how icky it is. Thank goodness for older kids and friendly neighbors!
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