Alot has been done over the past few weeks! I'd of posted something earlier but our camera cord is AWOL. The washing machine is DONE!! We've done a few successful loads on it already and although there are a few kinks in the system, I couldn't be happier with how it's turned out.
We used a reclined system, seperating the seat and just using the crank system. Since Erick is 6'5 and I'm 5'6, we needed a way for both of us to use the machine comportably. Thankfully, he figured out a way to get around that. Since the crank is seperated from the seat, we tossed the seat and pull up an armchair instead. It uses around 15-20ish gallons, since we wash the new load with the water from the previous rinse cycle to save water.
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| Pardon the crappy cellphone pics! |
We used a reclined system, seperating the seat and just using the crank system. Since Erick is 6'5 and I'm 5'6, we needed a way for both of us to use the machine comportably. Thankfully, he figured out a way to get around that. Since the crank is seperated from the seat, we tossed the seat and pull up an armchair instead. It uses around 15-20ish gallons, since we wash the new load with the water from the previous rinse cycle to save water. Now to match our fancy pants new washer, we built a clothes line in the back yard. Sitting on our back slab of concrete (some day to be a deck) watching our clothes flapping in the sun, is a very fufilling feeling.
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| if you squint you can see my underwear! |
Now what are we gonna do once we get all our clothes squeaky clean? Get them dirty gardening! We've put the garden in, but sadly, it's looking a little peckish. With all this bi-polar weather we've been having (90 sun, 45 degree storms the next...wtf mother nature!?) we've sprouted more weeds than lettuce over the past two weeks. We'll see how that goes....
Just incase, I bullied Erick into letting us get an "insurance" tomato plant incase the hummus hits the fan and our sickly tomato plants decide to volunteer for the compost heap.
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| Not my tallbike, just a photo from wikipedia! |
On a lighter note, Erick made me a tall bike! For people who are sane enough to avoid these, it's basically two bikes welded ontop of one another to make a bike that's extra tall. Mine is a child's bike ontop of a regular one, so it's like the training tall bike of tall bikes. He got a good laugh watching me trying to ride it around our street and yard, since I had to fall off it on our grass because there's no brakes yet. It's a good way to celebrate my ankle being healed!!
