• laundry with my ancestors

    It was another glorious day yesterday, although the cold air keeps the temperatures down. I’ve been using the run of good weather to empty the laundry baskets in the house. I can see the bottom of them all now. Yesterday I washed sheets – bulky items that take up plenty of space in the hamper. I feel a strange sense of satisfaction drying clothes outside. I love the smell of the clean wash, and the snap they make when the wind whips at them. I can see them flapping in the breeze from my office window, and its simplicity gladdens my heart. What I love most is that it’s such…