My Mother, Inventress Extraordinaire; Laundry Is...Oh, Well

I just had to post this. My mom is too cute. My parents have an older, though stone, home - but one that has an old laundry room that water gets into whenever it rains. So! My mom devised a way - or thought she did - to direct the incoming water away from getting on their outside carpet. She used straws. :-) But, alas, I got an e-mail this morning from her informing me of the sad news: her dike didn't hold up completely. But we Schraders try! And you wonder why I try to fly with cardboard.

"My careful dike building in the basement has not proven entirely successful. One sneaky little stream found its way underneath the clothes thing-a-ma-jig and got around my carefully constructed dike and dampened the carpet again. Boo hiss!"

Waverly Grads, don't you just miss my mom? ;-)