July 15

The past few days have been beautiful in the Boston area, and I've taken advantage of that (and serendipity) to work on catching up on laundry.

Why serendipity? We've had a rotating clothesline connected to our back porch since we moved in eight years ago. As our enclosed back porch is also the only storage space we have, we piled it so full of our crap that getting access to that clothesline wasn't a big deal. Then our clothes dryer broke. Since this has been the summer of hemorrhaging money, we haven't had enough money at any one time to have it repaired or replaced. So weekly trips to the laundromat to dry our clothes have been an integral part of the ol' summer routine.

However, our cleaning jig over Independence Day means that we can reach our clothesline now. Which is nice, once you get past worrying whether birds are going to use your laundry as a loo. With the nice sunny weather and access to the clothesline, we're no longer at the mercy of the Big Spin Laundromat.

Well, until it rains.

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