You just don't see people using clothes lines much in this part of the United States. It takes time and preparation if your line hasn't been used much lately. It was so funny to think that all the years that I lived in Japan, I didn't even have a clothes dryer! I didn't have a fully automatic washing machine until the last few years I was there also. So on the weekends I would wash my clothes and then hang them out to dry on my balcony. They smelled so good when they were taken in. Also, there is an art to making sure that they don't come out all wrinkled. My host family Mama showed me how to fold them square and then slap them in between my hands to get the wrinkles out. They used an iron a lot more than I like to also. So I am extra serious about the slapping business! :-)
Chickens were out on a walk about today and my husband spent much of the day pressure washing everything in sight. I was busy scrubbing the shower. We also decided to join a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture)...it is a box of vegetables that we will pick up at the Farmers Market every weekend. It supports the local farmers and we get a variety of vegetables for our table weekly. It is usually a good deal and it forces us to get creative about using different kinds of vegetables than we would would normally use.
We did start a garden this year...but the chickens got into it and ate all the leaves of everything. I should share a picture...but it was just too pathetic. The chicken egg yolks are BRIGHT orange though! All those nutrients...Yum. I do have to say that they plants are growing back...little by little!
We are all well. Summer feels like it is here. I think it is 90 degrees out there today. We still have one of our old chickens, Penelope. She was just out having a lovely dirt bath. She is the head of the roost now that she has two younger hens in the coop with her. She also started laying again!
Just wanted to say hello on this lazy Saturday afternoon.
