Phew! Saved for another day!

[Lori, Quincy & Frankie]

We have a  small bedroom upstairs that I converted to a laundry room when we re-did our upstairs bath.   I have always had visions of a clean, neat area to do laundry and iron clothes!  No longer would I have to travel the two full flights down to the dungeon like basement, fight my way past cartons of Christmas, Halloween, and Easter decorations, not to mention old clothes, old furniture and everything else I can't bring myself to throw out.   My son makes me watch "Hoarders" with him but does graciously refrain  from  calling me a flat out hoarder. He says since I do confine my "I may need this some day" stuff to the basement there is still hope.  He warns me that I better not die and leave him to clean it all out though.    

But back to my upstairs project.  I put a small washer/dryer combo- a really neat 120 volt deal.  It does take  6+ hours to run all the cycles, BUT you don't have to switch it from the washer into the dryer-its a one tub does all wonder.  Except when a hose cracks inside the machine where you have no warning, and floods not only that room but takes out the entire brand new kitchen ceiling downstairs.  The little drip pan was no match for gallons of water pouring out all over.

 

In this instance you do have to take the (sopping) wet clothes out (the least of it), call your insurance company who calls in professional water extracting company   (yes-there is such a thing) who arrives with vast amounts of crowbars, vacuums, hammers, nails and carpet blades.  These guys then proceed to rip out the carpeting, and   underlying wood floor ( Oh look! it's nice hardwood!) which is also in danger of warping and gets torn up, and the ceiling and some wall board and just generally a very big mess.   

After they rip out everything in sight they set up industrial size fans and leave you listen to these huge fans humming (make that HUMMING) all day, day in, day out, out for 4 or so days, which of course fall over a long weekend.

Then you have to have more workmen come in and install new wood floors, sand those with big scary machines, and put new smelly polyurethane over the course of a few more days.  Then the painter comes and  the ceiling gets replaced---well I digress.  Point is-ALL this took place while Quincy was just a pup.  He HATED the fans, the commotion, the upset and would not go near that room for months. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Even now, Quincy rarely goes in there, too many obstacles-  laundry baskets, the ironing board and yes, just   "stuff" (mostly from when my son cleans his room and dumps what he doesn't want in there- because he's not a hoarder....yeah right....)    All this of course is usually obstructing the lower view of the mirrored closet. (This is more like what my actual "laundry room" looks like, but I would never post what my real one does look like!) 

Well this morning, while I was in another room dutifully walking away on the treadmill, Quincy starting to bark!  Not just once, and not just his usual half hearted woof- he was BARKING HIS HEAD OFF. Quite out of character! Of course DH was in the shower, missing out on all of this and forcing me to figure out what was going on!

I immediately thought of the post from the other day about barking and the dog's thoughts and how to react so, hopped off the treadmill and started to head downstairs, expecting a delivery man, or gardener or a burglar brandishing a gun or something! But he was not downstairs.  I guess his curiosity finally led him to venture into parts unknown, aka the "Laundry Room".  And there he was! 

 

Barking his head off at the mirror obviously protecting his loved ones by warding off evil and   saving us all from the menacing  dark haired monster who was barking right back and about to eat us all up!

Tough job, but someone has to do it, hey Quincy? 

 

 

[Cheryl and Finnegan]

LOL, with pleasure, Quincy!

[Lori, Quincy & Frankie]

Cheryl, Quincy wants to hire you for to represent him in the pillow incident!  

[Cheryl and Finnegan]

And now we know WHO ate the pillow!  Good dog Quincy.  I knew it wasn't you :)

[Donna K & Quincy]

That does sound like a nightmare, glad it's behind you. Keep up the good work Quincy, you can now add guard dog to your resume. :>)

[F, Calla & Luca]

I'm glad that mess was way in the past. My washer and dryer are in an alcove off my bedroom and I love having it where all the dirty laundry naturally collects. Sometimes I bring a towel or two upstairs. When Luca was younger he used to get upset with that dog in the mirror, now he confines his outrage to dogs md other animals on TV.

[Lonnie & Libby Lu]

Love this blog and can so relate to many of the "moments" especially the part when you said "I may need this some day"!  That one gets me every time and the item is moved from one place to another until I have that "spring cleaning" moment again!  Quincy, you rock!

[Lori, Quincy & Frankie]

I must confess, the laundry room has the washer/dryer, my old easel set flat to fold clothes and my ironing board that stays set up and convenient but it also has a  whole lot of "stuff"- it looks nothing like this pristine picture.  At least it does not have basement cobwebs, though!  One of these days I will haul all the "stuff" down the two flights to join the other "stuff" in the basement!   

[Pat and Traveler]

That dream laundry room got off to a rocky start!  What a horrible thing to experience.

Good to hear Quincy is on the job!  He ventured into the scary place and discovered he had been right all along.  Keep up the good work, Quincy!

[Sheila & Finnley]

Well there was so much to this story. I have learned that my dream of that upstairs laundry room is probably going to remain a dream. I also learned that probably ALL husbands are not around in a time of crisis, and that Quincy has your back ! Go Quincy !!!

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Lori, What a fantastic blog. I was right there with you every step of the way. Isn't it amazing how husbands are always in the bathroom when something exciting happens? LOL Our water heater broke once and the water everywhere and the mess was awful. We remember those fans all to well. Glad Quincy is getting braver about that laundry room. What a great watchdog :)