A small world after all!

It’s funny, sometimes, how small the world is.

Last October, I posted about the free dishwasher that I found in someone’s yard that we took home and installed in our rental house. (Below)

I was chatting a while ago with Lori Lawson, the professor in charge of the Texts & Critics class I fellowed for. I mentioned how great it had been to randomly find a dishwasher with a “free” sign in someone’s yard. She laughed, recalling having seen the same dishwasher and wondering, “who in the world would take a free dishwasher from someone’s yard?” Turns out–that was me!

The other day, I was reading on BozemanHouse.com about the efforts of someone in Bozeman to restore an aging house, using sustainable materials.

I realized quickly that the house being described was the same house we had snagged our dishwasher from. To make things even better, I put two-and-two together and realized that I’ve actually met Ron (in relation to Bozeman’s recycling program)–the owner of that house, and former owner of our God-send dishwasher!

So: Thanks, Ron. Thanks for the dishwasher. It really has been a God-send. Not only has it done a fantastic job of washing our dishes, it effectively warded off the dish-washing crisis that threatened to tear our testosterone-filled house to pieces (imagine: four messy guys in a house without a dishwasher. In fact, it very nearly came to blows, once…). As a direct result, Bovard, Andrew, Ben and I are still friends–enjoying our humble home.