I unloaded the dishwasher!

I got a rash on my hands from dishwasher detergent.

I got a rash on my hands from dishwasher detergent.

There is a world of interesting things inside your dishwasher.

Dishwasher. Hurry it up, miss, we're busy. ( ominous theme playing )

Good for you. You'll mop the toilets, hit the dishwasher, bus tables and empty the garbage.

It's almost as if somebody came into your home and rewired your walls so that the next time you turned on the light switch, the toilet flushed three doors down, or your dishwasher went on, or your computer monitor turned off.

So on the morning I visited, Eleanor came downstairs, poured herself a cup of coffee, sat in a reclining chair, and she sat there, kind of amiably talking to each of her children as one after the other they came downstairs, checked the list, made themselves breakfast, checked the list again, put the dishes in the dishwasher, rechecked the list, fed the pets or whatever chores they had, checked the list once more, gathered their belongings, and made their way to the bus.