The GG is coming back tomorrow (he’s lonely👀). I don’t have anywhere near the amount of laundry shown in the pic. That is from a long-ago year when the beach urchins were at the moomincabin and every blasted beach towel in the place had been used. Tomorrow I am mainly going because I have no clean underwear left. I even washed one pair out today. TMI?

Going into town from the moomincabin to the laundromat has always been a fun thing to do in my life. When we were little kids, we would go with The Commander to the laundromat and then various shopping expotitions and I fergit what else. Food (homemade PBJ probably) and soda pop were usually involved. We could have just done the laundry at our winter home, a shabby little bungalow down on Superior Street, but there were multiple loads so The Comm wanted to do them in parallel, not serial.

Fast forward to when the beach urchins were little. We went to a different laundromat then and LUNCH at a RESTAURANT was usually in the mix by then, paid for by The Comm. Kids are kids and I vaguely remember one time when the lady who ran the laundromat stepped in to settle a little tiff between my beach urchins. Was I embarrassed? Yes.

By the time the beach urchins were teenagers, The Comm backed off from these excursions. She washed her own lingerie at her winter home, Dillon Street by then. TMI? I wouldn’t want anyone else to wash my “lingerie” either, although mine is basically black smartwool bikini underwear, which is neither sexy nor old lady style. Again, TMI?

Nowadays I do mine and the GG’s laundry and any linens that we use, mainly towels, bathmat, and dish cloths, etc. So usually one laundry basket and tomorrow’s will be a lightweight one.

The second pic is our teenage beach urchins minus one who didn’t really want to do laundry with her baggy old aunt at 0-skunk-30 in the morning, preferring to sleep instead. I certainly don’t blame her for choosing sleep but it was fun to have the other urchins with me.

I switched laundromats *again* a number of years ago, to the fantabulous Up North Laundry, first laundromat in town to install free WiFi (long ago). It also has benches outside so I can do my word puzzles out there while waiting for laundry. And an app to pay for the washers, which are $6.50 a load. A lot of quarters. I am happy enough doing the laundry alone but I miss the days when I had kiddos with me.

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