and there was much rejoicing!

We have hot water! Our two favorite apprentice plumbers were here with an unfamiliar senior or two today and they did some investigation and troubleshooting first which took quite a while, but ultimately resulted in the installation of our replacement boiler! (We can't shower yet because there still isn't a shower curtain rod, in spite of my efforts to remind people last week that we were going to need one sooner rather than later. I also tried to suggest that Wax and I buy one tonight, but her mom seems to want to buy it herself tomorrow. We had already washed ourselves with like 8 liters of water boiled in two electric kettles anyway though.)

We also have clean laundry! There has not been a revolution in the washer department and we did not walk to the harbor after all. Rather, waxjism, who had told me that laundromats aren't a thing out here in the boonies, suddenly remembered there's a hypermarket (a super-supermarket, which apparently they call a hypermarket in Europe which is hilarious: a supermarket with clothing and house stuff departments, like a super Target or the big size of Wal-Mart) that has a laundromat in Kaarina, which is not that far away, so we went there last night and did 20 bucks of laundry. That only took 2 machines because they have large ones, but we had to hang them carefully to fit them on our three drying racks. I carried two of the racks out into the sun today, but they're not all completely dry yet. However, it's still a tremendous relief.