My sheets (bottom) basking in the morning sun and snowAnother weekend of toddler birthday parties. We took a lot of pictures of Dylan but none of them came out as he was running around like a maniac. He doesn't stop for a second when there are other kids around and lots of toys to play with.
I haven't had a laundry post in a while so I thought I'd share my weekend strategizing. I've had sheets I've needed to wash now for about two weeks (I mean, we have other sets so it's not like we are sleeping on dirty sheets but still...), but there's no room to hang them in the house. It's been raining, snowing or really cold out so I haven't been able to hang them outside. Word on the street was that Sunday was going to be sunny and perhaps even hit 5 degrees Celsius (41 Fahrenheit). I put the sheets in Saturday night on the automatic timer to get them going early in the morning even though it meant we'd be awoken by the spin cycle as the washer is in the bathroom and directly behind our bed. It was also a risk as if the weather report was wrong, I'd have wet sheets and nowhere to hang them. I've been burnt like this before, and it means I have to take the wet sheets to my mother-in-law's house and ask her if I can hang them in her basement, which I hate doing because then she feels compelled to iron them when they are dry and that makes me feel guilty. In any case, my calculated risk paid off and I was able to get the
sheets hanging out at the exact moment the sun was rising over the balcony Sunday morning. They were dry (enough) by 5:30 p.m. when the sun was going down. I have no idea what I will do when I have access to a clothes dryer. Knowing me I will still hang a lot of things on the drying rack and find something else to complain about. Hee hee. Though sheets and towels (or anything that has been vomited on or soiled in any other disgusting way) will be washed and dried immediately.
1 comment:
That post is right up my alley at the moment. We've had non stop rain and I have a whole lot of wool stuff i need to handwash. But i can only hang it (place it on the drying rack horizontally) outside as it drips all over the show. We only have 1 washing rack as usually I use the clothesline where stuff dries in a couple of hours. However with the rain the drying rack is always full. Dilemmas!
I have also been trying Dad's strategy, which is that even if it is raining, clothes HANGING don't get that wet. ummm, yeah, no. Anyway, i hang stuff outside even in drizzle and bring it in for the evening (it's actually mostly dry!), putting it on the drying rack under the wall mounted heater (which blows warm air on it). That was working well until one day MIL happened to spot we had (heaven forbid!) clothes drying in the lounge - don't you know the humidity from them will KILL YOU!!
Good luck with your washing. Yours in sympathy, Vanessa
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