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Appliance Hell

It hasn't been a good day for us! Woke up this morning to a refrigerator that wasn't very cold. We moved everything out of the freezer to the chest freezer in the basement, and put the things we could salvage in coolers with ice. Corby then spent several hours sucking dirt and dust out of the vents and around the condenser, etc. After several hours of cleaning he plugged it back in and it seems to be working. We haven't put everything back in there. Will wait until morning to make sure it is working. Then this evening our washer quit. I was down to about 3 loads of laundry left to do, and it stopped before spinning the load of boys work shirts. Kaitlin and I had to squeeze water out of the entire load so we could put it in the dryer. Corby looked at it, and thinks it's the pump. He's hoping Paul, our favorite neighbor and handyman, can help him fix it tomorrow night!

I had to go down to work today to add pages to tomorrow's paper due to the tornado in Greensburg and flooding in Ellinwood. I also put in a late 5x18 insurance ad. I imagine we will be adding some more insurance company ads to both the Tues. and Wed. paper.

We had storms off and on all day. Cinnamon spent most of the day in the house. Even though she's this big strong husky/chow, she's a baby when it comes to storms! In fact, Corby had to let her inside about 4 this morning.

I picked my quote of the day because of the trying times we had today: "Write it in your heart that every day is the best day of the year." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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