Mike-the-repairman came. First thing he did was he tried turning on the washing machine.
Dang if the thing didn’t turn right on. I was gobsmacked. I had tried… and I’d come back later and had tried again, and …!
He asked a few questions and since I was the one who’d been using it and the space in there was tight, Richard, who’s on vacation, went back across the house to what he was doing.
Mike got down and looked at it from underneath while he and I both held it up out of his way a bit. (I had emptied the water out earlier as best I could, cupful by cupful into about ten small-dyepot loads in case he had to pull the thing out. It was a surprisingly lot.)
The motor was not dead but it was on its way out. Do small loads, he said, don’t do them back to back like when it died, let the thing cool down. A new motor would cost a couple hundred–he was going to see if he could find us a used one.
And with that he left us with a machine working for now and refused to let us pay him anything yet.
Quite to my surprise my back went on full-on strike the next time I tried to bend over. I had a doctor’s appointment to get to. Richard offered to drive me, good man that he is, and he dropped me off and then went off to check on Betty. That had not been in today’s plans but it suddenly made sense, and that was worth a day’s muscle twinges for sure and it made it feel okay.
Meaning, as Rachel Remen writes (in one of my all-time favorite books), is the language of the soul.
And it has an alphabet all its own.
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I hope your back is much better today. Take it easy anyway.
Comment by DebbieR 12.09.17 @ 7:10 amHead, hands, back… Please take care of you hips and legs! hihihi
I’m sure Betty was happy with Richard’s company.
Heal well.
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