The poor Hub. He's able to fix anything. And, as a result, he winds up fixing everything.

I didn't say it was EASY for him to fix stuff. I just said he could do it. Most of the time it's not easy. Most of the time it's something that seems as if it ought to be easy, or sounds easy, or would be easy if 20 million weird complications didn't come up.

The whole episode with the washer and dryer conking out is a case in point. It did seem suspicious to both of us that the washer quit functioning shortly after the dryer burned up. So The Hub lugged the dryer back into place, got a new vent hose for it (and a diverter so the warm air will stay in the house in the winter time while he was at it), grabbed the fire extinguisher and turned it on to see what it did.
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It dried clothes. Turns out he and the firemen were wrong: the motor in the dryer was not burning up. So we have a functioning dryer. That's good news, I'll take it. In fact, it means we've had 50% more good luck in the laundry department - surely Fate is smiling on us.

I'm sure The Hub didn't feel smiled upon though when he took the washer apart. First of all, he had to tip the whole thing over to get at it, and there were some kind of springs in there, which must have been the devil to get out. When he finally got the panel off he saw the problem. It WAS a belt problem. The belt that causes the agitator to function was broken, and not only was it broken, a good part of it was burnt. He thinks that it got caught in the motor - we must have unplugged the washer at the same time as we did the dryer- and when we jostled the washer moving the dryer out the burnt belt fell out of the place in the motor in which it was caught. You can see how this would happen if you looked inside our washer, which I did while he was explaining this to me.

The consequence of all of this is that he had to go out on a glorious quest to find a belt that was the right size, which I think he finally did. However he didn't have time to put it in before falling over from exhaustion brought on by championship appliance wrestling and having to go drive all over town for the part.

It's not a thankless job, Hon! I appreciate it and I'm sure the parakeets do too! ( Laundry going by interests them) You are a manly man providing the means for us to wash our underwear! Who could ask for anything more?