With permission from Matt I had to share this email he sent me on call the other day:
"Yes yard fairy; our fairy mowed, weeded, weedwhomped, weed killed, and then some. I did help the yard fairy with the garage. Cleaned everything out, swept, blew; sweated like crazy. Went to Target, picked up 2 new shelves, spent money (sorry). Went to Lowes, got tool hanger, more weed killer, spent more money (sorry again). Came home, put the new shelves together, put up the tool hangers, got everything up off the floor and organized. Awesome. Spent an hour looking at the back yard and talking about what to do with it. So hot out. Mom told us there was some water in the unfinished part of the basement. Crap, but whatever. Went down to check it out on the way to the backyard to haul rocks. Found a small puddle of water in front of the dryer. Yes, dryer, not washer. Trying figure out where it came from, thought the dryer hose felt heavy. Pulled it off, realized it was full of lint. And water. Crap. Completely pulled it off and threw it away. Looked in the dryer vent pipe. Full of wet lint. Double crap. Pulled the vertical pipe out. Took a wooden pole to clean it out. Worked okay, not great. Took a look in the pipe running to the outside. Eesh. Not good. Tried the wooden pole. Minimal improvement. Back to Lowes. New dryer connector, duct tape, and what can only be described as the worlds most awesome pipe roto rooter, spent even more money (seriously, REALLY sorry). Roto rootered the vertical pipe. Cleaned TONS of lint out. Sweet. Next up, the horizontal pipe. In goes the roto rooter, get out a lot of lint, then, just stops. Double crap. rotor rooter from the outside. Lots of difficulty, then break through. Pull out... pine needles? Mud? What the hell? Bird must have nested in there at some point. No joke. Spent the next hour roto rootering and getting more mud out. Shit was raining down on us. Like, probably literally fecal matter. Real nice. Spent the next hour doing that. Made it MUCH better, but not perfect. Getting an extender kit this week, going to work on it more Wednesday when my parents come back up. Dryer is fine, but have to wait till Wednesday to use it again (sorry to keep apologizing, but sorry). On the upside, clothes should dry MUCH faster now. So we have that going for us, right? Parents just left, just showered, going to now melt into the couch. Sorry I haven't been able to talk earlier, been working all day. Your son has been adorable though. Such a little mimic. Thinks he's super cool, too. Keeps clapping for himself. Hope you're having a good night. Missed you lots today."
Email cracked me up. Bottom line, I now have a fantastic garage as compared to the trash dump it used to be and a functioning dryer! (And a very sweet husband and very sweet in-laws. Thank you!)
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