iron water

today i learned that if there is water in my iron from the last time i used it, it will spew water everywhere when i plug it in and turn it on.

literally spew water. all over the stuff i'm trying to iron. so that i have to move the iron back and forth over the same spot a hundred million times to get it to dry.

fortunately for me, i wasn't really ironing anything all that important, and there was no time crunch involved, so it's not like it was a huge deal. just a bit of a nuisance. when i decided that i couldn't stand the wrinkly duvet cover and curtains in the guest room a second longer and hauled them downstairs to make my grandmothers proud, i didn't count on having to wrestle with my iron just to prevent it from soaking my already sad looking bedding and window treatments.

it was a nice way to spend an hour though, standing at the ironing board watching friends with the late morning sun pouring in the back door as i watched the wrinkles disappear into smooth, beautiful linens. very therapeutic. and the guest room looks really fantastic now. the process was just a little more involved than i expected it to be. and i just realized that when i put the iron away, i forgot to drain the water.

oops.