Photo: Rag Rug, Washed

I just washed my rag rug.  This entailed Larry hauling it downstairs for me (that thing is big and bulky and heavy) and out onto the back deck.  I then squirted Mrs. Meyer's geranium-scented liquid dish soap on it.  I always get carried away with that stuff.  

Was that Stan Laurel who was in a laundromat, way back when, pondering over how much detergent to use? -- "Reckon a whole box will do?"  He poured it in, started the washing machine.

Suds billowed.  They billowed from the machine.  They billowed onto the floor.  They billowed out the windows and out the door.

Directly, Stan Laurel (if it was him) was heard shouting, "Get the women and children out first!"

Anyway, I squirted liquid geraniums all over the rug, and then proceeded to pour gallon pitcher upon gallon pitcher of hot water on it.

And we had suds.

Did we ever have suds.

After a while, despairing of ever getting rid of all that geranium soap, I attempted to lift one side of the rug in order to let the water (and suds) drain off of it.  I used some kind of thick, heavy-duty polyester on the back of this rug, and liberally coated it with Fiber-Lok Non-Skid Backing, back when I made it several years ago.  This of course prevents water from simply running through it.

Problem:  that big, bulky, heavy rug now weighed a good ten or twenty times more than it had previously weighed.  (I nevah, evah exaggerate.)

With a lot of struggle and effort, lifting one corner after another a little at a time, I finally got enough water poured off of it that I could drag it up and over the iron bench and railing, so it can dry.

Theoretically.  It's only 37° out there today.  It will get down to 26° tonight, and we're expecting snow tomorrow.  I wonder how many times the rug will freeze before it actually dries??

Yeah, yeah, I know I should've done this sooner, when it was still hot outside.  Blame it on Larry.  He kept forgetting to haul the rug downstairs for me.  It's not my fault, I can't help it, I'm not to blame, I refuse to take responsibility for it!  😆

It is now time to reorder dish soap, for some reason.