The Dryer

"Marc will you check the dryer vent I don't think its working right. The clothes have been running for 40 minutes and they're not dry."

But I'm in the middle of playing the Wii with Ben. Can this wait?

This is what happened last night about 11:45 PM. The Blackwoods were staying with us for the night and trying to do some laundry for their vacation. So Tom and I jumped up and checked the dryer vent out.

We decided that something was probably lodged in the vent. (We're just a bunch of geniuses I guess.) So I head out side to look.

I have my flashlight and I open the vent cover to find that just at the bend there is a bunch of straw and junk stuck. I'm thinking to myself, I don't want to stick my hand in there! So Tom comes out and he looks inside and discovers the same problem. He looks at me and tells me that he doesn't want to stick his hand in there either!

So I find some gloves and give them to Tom and he sticks his hand in the dryer vent trying to grab as much straw as possible. He gets what he can and then we both watch to see if something flies out. We had to be standing there for several minutes watching the straw telling each other that we think its moving.

Finally after realizing that nothing is going to come out, we take a hanger and try to shove the stuff all the way to my basement floor. I head inside and try to grab the straw and junk with another hanger from the inside.

After 20 minutes we finally get the dryer vent free. Now we can dry clothes with ease.

Life is good.

And I miss the Blackwoods already.