My handy-man husband :)

He knows how to make me happy.

When we moved into this new apartment, the one thing I was really sad about was not having a dryer. Judge me if you will, but basically, I grew up in Indiana and Michigan, yeah? We sometimes dried clothes outside in the summer, but when winter lasts half the year or more (in Michigan), basically, a dryer is something you're just used to having and using regularly.

And frankly, there is nothing like warm sheets or towels out of the dryer. It is lovely to not have to iron things because they've come out of the dryer and aren't wrinkled. And it's really nice to be able to do a load of laundry from start to finish (that is laundry basket to folded back in the closet) in one afternoon.

So, on Friday, we finally got ourselves in gear and went and bought the cheapest dryer we could find. :) We brought it home that very afternoon without any hassles. But, then it just sat there, and we didn't really know who was going to install it, set it up, etc. It needed a vent set up, and although Joel had some ideas, we were looking to ask for help in getting it done.

Well, this afternoon it turns out Joel decided to try to just get the job done. I was napping and reading on the couch as he came and went a few times gathering tools, materials and advice. Soon the sounds of power tools came from the laundry. Eventually, he invited me in to come look.

What a beautiful sight! The white one is the dryer.

And here you can see the board that Joel cut to fit this space, and the hole where the vent pipe goes, etc, etc. All very impressive. I certainly couldn't have done it, and had it been left up to me, the dryer would have sat not set up for months probably!

The funny thing is that a lot of our colleagues kind of poked fun at us for buying a dryer. In the, "Surely you could live without it, no?" kind of vein. But, now that it's home and set up, we're hearing lots of comments more along the lines of, "So, where is the sign up sheet going to be?" and "You're just going to set it up in the hallway so we can all use it right?" Ha ha!

Now, the only challenge- teaching the maid what can and cannot go in the dryer. I have asked that she not do my laundry at all anyway- but Joel has her do his. But Joel is also very picky about most of his shirts hanging off his body in that three sizes too big style that is only achievable by air-drying. So, yeah, good luck with that. I'd assume the maid if going to love the dryer, and probably going to want to use it for everything. I guess we'll see how that goes!!!

So, thanks to my handy-man husband for being such a man's man today and getting this all done. I love it, and I love him! :)