Jul 22 2010
Ins & Outs
A misty morning at Woodhaven
~Yawn~
Audrey’s been pretty good about her nightly imprisonment. She generally comes in on her own before dark, settling on the bed for her beauty sleep while I watch old movies to escape the present. She usually doesn’t wake me up before dawn, though today she was determined to go out at 5:45 am, whereas I was determined to stay asleep.
Guess who won.
It’s very foggy this morning, so we compromised by letting her out at 6:05, when it was essentially light out, but the fog created a sort of faux-darkness. I even had the light on while I made coffee, as well as a sweater. It was 58 degrees in the house this morning, and as I waited for the coffee to brew, I pondered the fact that if it were winter, I’d put the heat on, instead of leaving the door open a crack to let Princess Audrey in and out.
Go figure.
Yesterday, I did three loads of laundry (light, dark, and Megan). I virtuously hung out my laundry and put Megan’s in the slightly scary dryer. About 3:00, the fog rolled in to the point where it was making the laundry wetter, not dryer, to be outside, so I ended up putting it all in the dryer, propane bill be damned.
So much for being green-ish.
While I was doing laundry, Megan and Rob were winding their way up and down the curvaceous challenges of Highway 20, on their way to visit the surgeon who operated on Meg a week ago. He took out the stitches, some of which were quite recalcitrant, and said she was doing well. She’ll see him again in late August, when he’ll give her a final check before letting her go back to work, nearly four months after the original injury, half of that spent dealing with bureaucracy and fighting to get the surgery done.
8 Responses to “Ins & Outs”
Bummer about the laundry. I enjoy hanging laundry on the line and LOVE the smell of your clothes when you take ’em down. Not to mention the “green” aspect as you mention. Imagine if everyone did this instead of using a dryer. But then you have towns like Kanata, outside of Ottawa where it’s “illegal” to hang your clothes out.
With this weather I find a clothes ‘horse’ jolly handy, but I don’t think you would have room in your house, Suzy…
Glad that your princess is settling in to a routine. I’m afraid that G. used to throw a pillow at our cats when they tried to get us up too early – now they wait for the alarm to go off…or anyway, 5 minutes before. Amazing how they can time it so accurately.
jx
Seriously? Illegal? Why?
I actually hang the wash on a folding rack, which might be the same (or similar) thing. I put it in the sun, moving it around as the day goes on. In the winter, I put it in front of the heater, but it would take forever to dry inside without the heater in the foggy weather.
I think since being “Green” came into being, Kanata has had to bend so that one can use an umbrella-type clothes hanger…I don’t know whether one can yet use the long line.. So ridiculous……
jx
I wonder what their thinking is. Not scenic, or something? Not like Kanata is some gorgeous historic preservation area or anything….
there are neighbourhoods around here that have a by-law (neighbourhood law?) that says you can’t hang your clothes out on a line, too. Ridiculous.
I tend to have too many clothes, though (and also, don’t have a line although I do have a folding rack). I couldn’t get even half a load on my folding rack…
Considering all the fuss about the environment one would think that this law in Kanata would be challenged, kind of out of date regualtion if you ask me.