the clothesline is up!!!

after a few months of getting all the stuff i needed (which really wasn't much and shouldn't have taken so long) and letting the posts settle, i finally got to use my clothesline!! hoping for a long sunny day! i know i'm going to have to rethink how i normally do laundry. as in, doing 4 loads once a week is going to turn into doing 2 loads twice a week. also, as i'm hanging up stuff i'm remembering how i used to hang stuff and that i'll get better with practice. and i know i'm going to have to tighten my lines when this load is done!

another thing is that i'm looking at what i'm hanging and i'm thinking "was this REALLY dirty?" i think using a clothesline again will remind me that not all clothes are as dirty as we think they are. not that we wear and wash. we've never done that. i know if you look through our pictures you'll see how we tend to wear the same things for days. which is why for a family of 5 we usually only have 3-4 loads a week. i know people who do that much every other day. but i would like to look more closely at what we are washing that could most likely still be worn. i think of the things hanging right now that actually needed washing there's underwear and scotty's work pants. maybe a few t-shirts that had been worn until i said "please change your shirt!" (that's usually for silas).

i also wonder how having clothes out will effect my hoping for rain...

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