Withstanding the storms

 Well, I made it to Friday!  It was a crazy and weird week.  Leon and I managed to watch more than a few episodes of Doctor Who and we're ALMOST up to my favorite season.  He keeps asking me which was the saddest episode or favorite, etc.  Um, it's still all in the next season but I'm still loving this one!

 I did skip Bible study this week because I was exposed to Covid but hope to be clear by Saturday.  No symptoms yet! Crossing my fingers and folding my hands.

I was up at 2am today and started browsing, eventually getting back to sleep.  The last time I looked at the clock was 3:15am.  I came across a meme that Mimi posted. Do you remember her from the blog, Living in France?  She was one of my imaginary friends.  

I think she took the blog down and is writing for other publications now.  Boy, I miss her posts!  But I do get to see her on FB every once in a while.  Her boys are all GROWN now!!

This hit home to my funny bone because a few years ago, my nephew, who plays violin, asked me to sing along with this song during our Thanksgiving reunion.  We didn't practice, as you can tell. :)  Well, "I" didn't because he didn't give me a chance to.  

And I've often had the same thoughts as Mimi whenever I see those memes about you not able to withstand the storm.  I think the usual answer is "I AM the storm" or some such nonsense so this fits SO much better. ;)

OH!!!  Meri's dryer stopped working a few months ago and she didn't want to pay for an appliance guy so a couple weeks ago, she and I tore it apart to find out what the matter was.  Found out that the belt was broken.  hmmm  Thank goodness for Youtube, Amazon and Google!  We ordered the right part off Amazon and it finally arrived last weekend.  So earlier this week, she and I figured out how to put the belt on and for the moment of truth, she hit start.  

It gave a code saying the door wasn't shut!  Um, YES it is!

So she did some research and it was one of a dozen different remedies, most of which cost money.  We hit the project again yesterday.  Granted we DID have 3 screws leftover after we got it all together before and taped them to the back of the machine in case we need them someday. We thought maybe we omitted a vital one.  I suspected that the screws on the front plate were the wrong ones and pushed the door out a bit too far, so she pulled those off and tried starting it. Still the same error.

One of the remedies she found gave detailed instructions on how to pull the machine apart and we did it bit by bit.  When it got to the front panel with the door, it said to disconnect the wire for the door.  

That gave us pause.  Did you disconnect a wire when you pulled that off Meri?  Um, no.  So we put it all back together, making sure to reconnect that wire.

Moment of truth, part 2.  It worked!!!!  

We are women, hear us complain when we can't figure something out! 

But hear us high five each other when we do!

I haven't talked to Ada today but Wednesday she was sounding pretty hoarse.  I usually go visit her on Fridays and today it's raining.  I may find an umbrella and do it anyway from outside her window.  

Have a wonderful weekend!