I'm Drying in the Rain
It's the weekend, the moment of washing clothes that will be needed during the week. Correction, of washing and drying . Therein lies the problem. I don't have a dryer. Normally, I wash the clothes, take it out, and hang it outside to dry. During the mostly dry months that's not usually a problem. The problem begins now. The eternal rains are upon us. That means I hang the clothes in the cellar to dry. There's no problem with that - if I don't mind waiting three or four days for it to dry. The problem comes on the weekends, when my husband's clothes needs to be dry for early Monday morning. Then, we scramble. Or, rather, try to. The clothes comes out of the washer and to the kitchen. We light the fire. We hang the clothes in front of the wood stove to dry. There are points where clothes dries faster and points where it dries slower. So, I rotate. When one piece is dry, another piece from another section is put there, and a piece from the basket is placed w...