And everything
else. We’ve been drying our clothes
outside for more than a year and a half.
Not too big of a deal, expect during raining season as we have to find a
spot sheltered from the rain and things just take longer to dry, occasionally
leading to a sour smelling towel or shirt.
Other than that, we’ve gotten use to the initial starchy or scratchy
feeling of hanged dried clothes. Since
living with a local family in this smaller town, we’ve had to adjust to another
aspect of drying clothes outside. The
clothes line is next to the house above over grown plants. Quite frequently the clothes line is used as a major highway by ants. So when it is time to take the clothes down
they need to be shaken out well. Even
still the ants end up coming inside. I
frequently will place all the clean laundry on our bed to be folded, but this
then leads to ants in our bed. There are
enough ants other places it is hard to know if the ants we actually find on our
bodies are from our clothes or elsewhere. In addition to ants in our clothes John has been bitten multiple times while hanging up clothes, this has then led to a very swollen foot and difficult language session after taking Benadryl and fighting drowsiness.
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| Caedmon on the way to take down dry clothes. |
A couple days
after we moved upstairs we were given a broom. Small wicker brooms are usually used outside
to sweep porches, driveways, streets, and even lawns. At first I was a little confused as to why we
where given this broom until it was explained it was for our bed. Who knew you need a broom for your bed. It has come in quite handy as we do not have
a top sheet or comforter (not that we’d want one in this heat) and our room is not
sealed off well from outside. So our bed
needs a frequent sweeping. Though I
still think if our bed truly needs sweeping there are other preventative
measures I should take, because it is really that much cleaner if I’ve just
swept it with a broom?
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| our bed broom |
