When the older ones on Stauffer Avenue get their grove on . . . watch out. Sheets were stripped from the bed, so why not take the mattress pad to the laundermat. Oh, the three yard polar fleece blanket would make a good match with Dennis’s winter parka for a second load. Wait . . . there are two loads of rag rugs that we have been stacking up in the garage when soiled. Dennis didn’t even mess with putting quarters into his pockets. The VFW bar manager has saved beef jerky plastic quart jars for Dennis, one of which has been his quarter piggy bank. Dirty laundry, laundry soap, the entire piggy bank and Dennis headed off to the laundermat in his little red pickup. The front load Speed Queen washers run on $2.00 and can take more of a load than our home washer.
While Dennis was gone, the bedroom was freshened from head to toe and his garage porch got a good vacuuming. We have put down rag rugs on our new carpet in the porch. Six four footed creatures plus Dennis and I can drag in a lot of yuk on the feet. To top it off, when the rain of last night was 1.5 inches, wet feet are soilers for sure.
Our washer/dryer unit is a pretty good size, 3.5 cubic feet of washer capacity. It would be running for hours if all of that laundry needed to be dried. With more quarters for the dryers, everything might not have been quite totally dry, but it didn’t take long for the drying to finish on the clotheslines. We just purchased this GE washer/dryer unit in January of this year and rag rugs and heavy bedding is just not a good fit.
I am not sure what to make of people our age when they tell us they get bored. My belief is “only boring people get bored.”