every day is laundry day

Washers here are a fascinating work of engineering. So are dryers - or washer/dryers - or whatever we have. We have an appliance (in the bathroom) that functions as both a washer and a dryer. You put the clothes (just a few) in the machine, press a few buttons, turn a few knobs (without a clue as to what they mean or what they do), then put in about a thimble full of soap and start it up. Then presto-wizzo... in about 3-4 hours, the clothes are washed AND dried. They go into one hole dirty and come out the same hole washed and dried. Pretty nifty.

What's even more amazing than that is that the magic box doesn't even fill up with water. A few drops spritz into the clothes and they tumble to the left. Then a few more drops spritz in and they tumble to the right. It sometimes can be more entertaining than French TV.

But here's the catch....
It doesn't IRON the clothes! Perma-press turns into perma-wrinkle.

We are still experimenting though.
There are 10 choices for fabric type.
There are 4 buttons with funny pictures (not sure what they mean).
There are 4 more buttons with French words.
There are 3 knobs with different choices that can be selected by turning them.
Even without a degree in statistics, you could figure out that there are a ton of choices! or as we say in Texas... a sh#tload.