Brave Little Gerda Faces the Cutting Winds

[Gerda]

DnJ, I wrote you a nice long reply and then this thing happens that happens sometimes where the screen suddenly disappears to the right and I can't make it come back. And I have to go to work now so I can't recreate it. But I will try to do so later. I was so extremely appreciative of both the content of your words and how you kept checking on me during a couple of very dark days.

Also I just went to put something in the washer and my H had put in his laundry. Now that I have stopped doing his laundry for him, he always has this massive pile of laundry sitting around. And I don't know what he did, but there was soap and water gushing out of the washer and all over the floor like an episode of "I Love Lucy." I texted him a photo to ask if something had happened and all he wrote back was, "No." All a very good metaphor for his MLC. Me encountering the mess he left behind and him leaving me to clean it all up and try to make whatever repair I can figure out to make and in the meantime struggling with all my might to keep life going -- in this case, until it's fixed I will have to lug all the laundry for our rentals to a laundromat and spend piles of cash.

(On a practical note, I have a feeling it's the seal on the washer. Do you think there is any way in h*ll that Brave Little Gerda could replace that thing herself?)

((((DnJ))))))