The Dryer

After two years, our lovely and reliable dryer went out. This was part of the front-loader set that I kept from my old apartment and we put them in our new house. A few days ago, it started making a humming noise when we would turn it on, and it would not turn over. TJ thought it may be the motor going out or just the belt off track, so he tried to fix it. He took it apart, and half way through called me and said, "You need to schedule an appointment to come out and look at this." Right away I thought we had a bigger issue than what we started with; those worries were put to rest when I came home and saw that the dryer was still in one piece.
I took off of work, and scheduled an appointment for Monday with the Sears Blue Team. I was kind of worried, because I knew that this could get expensive. Around 10:00 am on Monday, the Sears tech arrived. He walked into our laundry room and turned on the dryer - it worked perfectly!!! My husband had fixed the dryer when he took it apart, but did not know it. After a $65 service fee, the repair man was on his merry way. And I began to chip away at the 5 loads of laundry that had been stacking up.
The good news - had something been wrong, it would have cost us $425 for a new motor and installation. I'll take the service fee!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

The thank you notes are finally finished and mailed out! After the showers, and wedding gifts, I think the final count was 83. We are truly blessed!!! I was able to get a lot of them completed during TJ's wisdom teeth surgery on Friday. :) He is doing well, by the way. He's a little sore, but is not letting that get to him.