Weedwhacker said:OMG, Jonna -- so glad you are okay!! Things like that can happen so quickly...
We were out of town yesterday, stopped at a light that was yellow, the light turned red -- and the next thing a large pickup truck with a big enclosed utility trailer went blasting by us and right through the intersection, followed by another large pickup truck! Thankfully no one on the cross street took off quickly when their light turned green or we would have been way too close for comfort to whatever might have happened. I was half expecting to see a cop car come through with the sirens blaring, in pursuit of those vehicles
Weedwhacker said:Doing a happy dance today after our new washer and dryer were delivered! Our 10-year-old front-load washer died a couple of weeks ago and we debated over "repair or replace," but finally concluded that a repair would more than likely involve some expensive circuit board and that we'd be better off to get a new one. Decided on a Samsung high-efficiency top-loader, which is supposed to create a lot less vibration than the front-loaders. It was also on sale at Lowes, and they gave us free delivery and setup, even though we're beyond the normal free delivery area, because we purchased the extended service agreement (which we had planned to do anyway). Whatever it does will be better than having to tote the laundry to the laundromat...
drdawg said:We love our new Samsung top-loading washer and front-loading drier. Well, my wife loves them. She won't even let me use them, and we have had them since Dec. They play songs while they work. I get to listen to their music.
. Too bad we can't upload the music we want them to play!
), but I did do a load of whites today, which included some socks that were pretty dirty (I tend to walk out into the garage for stuff with just my socks, no shoes...) and everything came out looking good, plus the washer was a lot quieter than our old one, and even on high-speed spin barely trembled (which is a big deal to me; the last one would kind of shake the whole house when it really got revved up). Our cats, however, are NOT pleased with the change 
Weedwhacker said:Ken, do you have the clear "window" on top of the washer? If so, do you know what it is made of? At Lowes we were told that it's tempered glass, but it feels like acrylic to me; I'm somewhat worried that my cat Ziggy is going to have it all scratched up in no time...
rocklady said:Finally I can post here on the Happy thread. Just had a call from our friends in DeLand, who checked out the house -- tree across the driveway and a couple of other trees down, lots of debris which is to be expected but no damage to the house. The power is still out but hoping that it will be restored before everything thaws out in the freezer. That is a small price to pay, however, for not having incurred damage to the house. DH is probably happy that with several more trees gone, there will be less leaves for him to deal with.
Needed transmission work AGAIN plus LOTS of other things....well the operative word here is was. I now have Dusty a 2009 chevy malibu. Talk about culture shock it's been at least 30 years since I've driven a CAR...Poppy the last 13. I like Dusty...not love yet,but like. She is well named...silver so the red clay dust REALLY shows up. Many bells and whistles that I need to figure out with a WORKING RADIO haven't had one of those in years. Moon roof...can't wait to see how the dogs react to that BUT not sure why the doors are not behaving as they should...sometimes they lock sometimes not...no warrenty...one day the crazy key fob thingy will be my friend...or not. I have learned to manually lock the drivers door so Dusty doesn't "yell" at me when after doing the fob I have to open it to lock it I am happy though because now when I go the post office I'm 99.99% sure I'll get home. Got to the point with Poppy I wasn't sure anymore.
so glad you are ok . Glad no one else was hurt.
