really!!!

 while I'm repainting the utility room and waiting for the new washer/dryer to be delivered, of course there is still some clothes that need to be washed.  So I thought, OK... wash them out in the bathtub.  Do you have any idea how heavy wet clothes are?  I have an all new respect for the washing machine.  Anyway... so i get the clothes in the tub (Kenneth's work clothes) and I'm thinking once there washed/rinsed I'll just get them out on the clothes line and then you hear...

the neighbors gardener next door mowing her lawn.  He blows dust everywhere.  I don't know how many times I've had to run out to get the clothes down before he covers my newly washed laundry with a cloud of dust.  I'm just glad I didn't have them hung out yet.  But, this also goes to show you what a mild winter we had here.  Kenneth has already had to mow our yard twice this month.

NOTE: I would just like to give a shout out to the inventor of the wringer/washer...
No wonder the ladies of old never needed a fitness center. What a work out! 

P.S.   did you see that fence rail... OMG  yet another project that needs doing. 

It's HOT...

and the more the heat rises... it's 105* in the shade! 12:00 noon

Blogs...

OK, I admit when I'm home and Kenneth is at work I spend wayyyy too much time reading other peoples blogs. I thoroughly enjoy seeing what other women, moms, grandmothers are doing in their lives and I don't mind admitting borrowing some of their ideas and laughing at their stories. It makes my day. Here's a blog I came across from someone else but signed up to be put on their blog list, Project Laundry List. Check it out and add your name if you also use a clothesline.I came across this site this morning...CUPCAKES!!! who doesn't love a little piece of cake? Their having a contest, check out some of these creations...incredible! No One Puts Cupcakes in a Corner

Clothesline...

I'm not really sure why, but trust me I'm not complaining, we got our electric bill the other day and I have really not been looking forward to it, just thinking it would probably be close to $200.00 since we've been running the air conditioner at 76* the last several weeks. But when I opened the bill it was only $100.61!
The only thing I can think we have really changed was putting up the clothesline and hardly using the dryer anymore. I realized talking with Amanda today that a dryer runs on 220 outlet. Does this mean it uses more electricity then an item that plugs into a 110 outlet?
Last months bill was $96.00 and we really weren't running the air because it was cool enough to have the windows open, but I was still using the dryer.
So if you are interested in trying to save on your bills also, but don't have an old family clothesline lying around for you to reuse, here is a web site I accidentally came across

http://www.tiptheplanet.com/index.php?title=Air_dry_washing

I never knew there were so many different clotheslines out there. Here's to more lower bills in the future. woohoo

Just a note:

Something to remember if you start line drying your clothes...

1. It takes a little longer for things to dry on a cloudy day.
2. Be ready to get them off the line if it begins to sprinkle, or
3. Maybe your neighbor decides to mow the lawn.
4. Fold and put away as soon as they come off the line to cut back on wrinkles.
5. Be prepared for fresh sunshine smells without the extra perfumes.
6. Bath towels and washrags are more scratchy, but we like that.
7. You can't find any clothespins to use on the potato chip bags because there out on the clothesline.
8. Watch your step...how dare the ants/gopher/bumble bee be living under my clothesline.
9. Smile alot knowing your saving money.

Ahhh home...

A place for everyone and everyone in their place.

Colby, Tex, Dusty, Dallas

I so live in the country, the new neighbors have a horse in the backyard.

He's really pretty.

And, I have a clothesline!

Kenneth and I brought it back from my Mom's.

It was my Little Grandma's (my Dad's mother).

It's possible that my Dad may have welded it for her.
I think I like that story :-)

It makes me feel good that it's being used again.

I was fixing supper and I see the clothesline right outside my kitchen window, it makes me happy.

One note: Yes Charles, its a little too close to the pecan tree, some of the clothes had a few "cling-ons" on them, where's Capt. Kirk when you need him?
But, I don't care I like it there.

It's funny how things grow where you least expect them.

Here are sunflowers growing under the bird feeder, and a tomato next to the patio.

Updates on the fruit trees. The blueberry is growing nicely, the lemon has two limbs now and the lime has new growth.