I love the internet!

All those who bash the internet, facebook, youtube, etc drive me crazy.  Because I personally love the internet and all the amazing good it can do.  Just like this weekend my precious front loader washer stopped working and was flashing an error code on the display.  It wasn't in the manual.  But it was on the internet!  and even better the "repair" was on youtube!  Seriously, without the internet we would have paid $150-$200 just to have them take the front off and empty the pump filter.  It was crazy how full it was, a couple of kids socks (which probably is what put it over the edge), pennies, nickles, dimes, 1 quarter, two small pebbles (I am sure Aspen donated those), a necklace, and oodles of lint.  Oh I forgot buckets and buckets of water!  We were not quite expecting the flood we got as we removed it.  We also found the technician's guide on the back of the face plate we removed totally disregarding the statement, "Do not remove, technician's only."  I promptly removed it for myself and filed it under manuals for the next time we have a mystery repair.  But my washer is now happily washing away all the many many loads I am now behind on. 

Scare Trows

 

In Sage's reading the have nonsense words that are not real words to test and see if they are really learning the different sound spellings or if they are just memorizing the words.  Well this weeks nonsense word was trow.  Which Sage informed me was not a nonsense word it was those things that farmers put in the fields to scare the birds. I told her those were scarecrows, and that is when Aspen pitched in and told me I was wrong and Sage was right they were ScareTROWS!  I started to laugh, usually when this happens I have to wait for Dad to get home and agree I am right, but thanks to the power of google I found a picture with the words SCARECROW!  They were quite disgusted, it is nice to occasionally be right, lol.