Today I am thankful for Spray and Wash pretreatment for laundry!! Olivia wanted to get her nails done so she asked Dan for a job to do around the house/yard. He told her to go out and pick up all of the sticks on our property. We have about an acre and a lot of trees in the back yard and side yards. She went out and cleaned up. Later I went down to the laundry room. She used my coat while doing the job and it was filthy! The coat is a white sweatshirt type coat that I wear to the gym over my workout clothes! I went crazy on Olivia. She said to me.........."well, I didn't want to get my coat dirty!!" I used half a bottle of spray and wash on it. It is in the washer now and I hope it gets cleaned, I also poured a ton of bleach in the washer too. Dan remembers when his mom used a washboard to wash and a wringer to get the water out of clothes. Once in awhile I watch the Tiny Houses shows. Now there is a washer and dryer in one machine. Our modern conveniences really are wonderful. When we were in Ukraine adopting the girls in 2007 and 2009, we rented apartments. They all had washers but no dryers. They had a drying rack. It takes a few days for clothes to dry on those racks. We tried hanging our clothes outside but we wound up with dry clothes full of bird poop! When we were in Novomirgorad adopting Olya, we had to stay in a hotel. We hand-washed our clothes in the shower and then hung them on curtain rods to dry
Success......I just got my coat out of the dryer and it is clean! I think the pretreatment and the Clorox did their job!!
The sign says Novomirgorad. It is a very small rural town in Ukraine. I loved being there! Life is much slower paced. Novomirgorad is very much like being in farm country. Dan was standing at a bus stop with Olya and he felt something pulling at his coat. Her turned around and a goat was trying to nibble his jacket! Another time, Dan and I were just sitting outside and saw a truck with a pile of pigs in it. The pigs were just loaded in the truck on top of each other. There was one hotel and one restaurant, which was in the hotel, in the town. There was one clothing store and one small supermarket. It sort of reminded me of the Andy Griffith show town of Mayberry. There was an internet café because most people were too poor to buy a computer. There was an outdoor market every weekend. We went to the outdoor market and bought many things. We bought jackets for each of the girls, lots of snack foods, and sunflower seeds. My girls LOVE sunflower seeds. They heat them up in a pan on the stove and it plumps them up. I think it probably makes them easier to crack open.
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| This was our Ukrainian clothes dryer! |
The sign says Novomirgorad. It is a very small rural town in Ukraine. I loved being there! Life is much slower paced. Novomirgorad is very much like being in farm country. Dan was standing at a bus stop with Olya and he felt something pulling at his coat. Her turned around and a goat was trying to nibble his jacket! Another time, Dan and I were just sitting outside and saw a truck with a pile of pigs in it. The pigs were just loaded in the truck on top of each other. There was one hotel and one restaurant, which was in the hotel, in the town. There was one clothing store and one small supermarket. It sort of reminded me of the Andy Griffith show town of Mayberry. There was an internet café because most people were too poor to buy a computer. There was an outdoor market every weekend. We went to the outdoor market and bought many things. We bought jackets for each of the girls, lots of snack foods, and sunflower seeds. My girls LOVE sunflower seeds. They heat them up in a pan on the stove and it plumps them up. I think it probably makes them easier to crack open. 
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