My Trailer Life Laundry Setup

Gratitudes:
1. I am grateful for creativity.
2. I am grateful for TODAY.
3. I am grateful for that art desk over there.
4. I am grateful for my incredible collection of food supplements.
5. I am grateful for being unique and producing unique work.
Plan for the day:
1. Keep on keeping on.
2. Books, blogging and housework.
3. Contentment with what God gives me.
4. Write a story.
5. Artistic journeying.

Currently reading:
1. Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
2. The Cloud of Unknowing by an anonymous 13th Century English monk.
3. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
4. Hornblower and the Hotspur by CS Forester
5. Clinging to Hope by Charles R. Swindoll
6. The Obsession of Victoria Gracen by Grace Livingston Hill

Here's how my day is going: 

I'm about to go out and get my laundry. My washing machine is outside because I live in a travel trailer and couldn't get it to work in here. The travel trailer has been a great home for me and the little washing machine is a blessing. If there's one chore I don't like to do - it is going to the laundromat. The one thing I missed the most after the forest fire ate my home - it was my laundry setup - washer and dryer. 

Here in my travel trailer I have a drying rack set up. I dry most of my clothes on it. I hang some to dry on hangers. I wash my blankets too and lay them across the top of the rack, usually for about two days. I want to make sure they're good and dry before I put them in the closet to store them. This drying setup works well for me. 

The washing machine is small. It is something I bought in desperation off Amazon. It holds one blanket at a time... or about eight pieces of clothing (shirts/pants). Truly I'm so grateful for it. At first I thought I could use it next to my sink here inside the trailer. It fit, but I couldn't figure out how to connect the hose to the sink as there's a screen in the faucet stopping it from connecting. I didn't have the tool to pull out that screen. 

No matter - it is hooked up outside to a garden hose and that works fine. I'm very happy with that washing machine and use it almost every day. I like to keep on top of the laundry pile, for sure. And I love having clean blankets!

The Mop Bucket

Yesterday I got the mop bucket I ordered. This is a big commercial quality mop bucket - the one I've always wanted. Why? Because it is easy to use, easy to move from one room to another, and it gets the job done. I'm 67 now, and feeling too old to deal with mop buckets that are small and ineffective, that leave you with a mop that needs to be wrung out and cleaned at the end. Enough already. I got this one:



A big industrial quality mop bucket on big strong wheels.

Unfortunately the heavy duty commercial quality mop I ordered is lost in transit. Maybe I'll get it today. I don't know. Last I saw, the tracking data said they received it in Oakland on the day it was originally supposed to be delivered. I'm sure it will arrive eventually, and to be honest, I'm not in that much of a hot hurry to mop floors.

Minimalist Daughter and a Broken Window

May is nearly gone. Just tomorrow is left then May 2002 will be no more.

We've been cleaning the house today. My daughter gave me two bookcases from her bedroom and I put them here in my dining room which is really more of a computer room and study. I straightened up in here, moving books into the new bookcases, while Keith and Aaron worked in the living room, moving the furniture around and washing the walls. We are planning on washing all the carpets within the next couple of days.

My daughter has developed a need for cleanliness and lots of empty space. In the last year she has gone from having the most unbelievably cluttered room, to having the emptiest room. Very annoying, when you consider that she cannot even stand for me to store a few boxes in the top of her closet now.

Well, it finally happened. Aaron and my daughter were roughhousing in the living room and a window got cracked because of their disturbing activity. How many times have I sat here and worried about that happening? Well I guess they just wouldn't believe me so finally it happened. Now I have one more window to replace. I have two others cracked right now. I don't much care for replacing windows but it has to be done. Last time I did it myself. It takes hours.

I am getting old. I'm going to be fifty in about six weeks. I need a nap. My daughter just got home from her ballet class. In two more weeks they're having a performance for the families.