Weekend Cleaning / Hawaii Reminiscing

We got our new washing machine yesterday. We went with a LG front loader, partly on a recommendation from Katie. So far, I really like it. It did 6 loads on it's first day in our house. The capacity is smaller than our old one, so that will be a bit of an adjustment for me.

We also did a lot of cleaning yesterday, which was due since I haven't done a major cleaning since we got back from Hawaii. I even got out the steam vac and took all the rawhide deposits off the living room rug. I didn't get to the kitchen, though, so I'll need to do that today.

I decided to take a leaf out of Becca's book and read a Backpacker magazine in the bath this morning. The result of this is that I just spent an hour using Topo USA to look up hiking trails in places there's no chance I will get to go this summer. I'm thinking about writing a "appreciate what you've got you lucky people that live near mountains" article. I shouldn't complain. I did just come back from Hawaii three weeks ago.

In that vein, I have posted a new Hawaii photo album. This one has tweaked photos, descriptions of the photos, and some panoramas. I am going to start a trip report this week. No doubt everyone will be tired of hearing about it before I'm tired of reliving it.