Powerless

Last night our power went out around 8:15 due to a storm and didn't come back until we were in bed around 9:45. It was so nice to be "forced" to do nothing and sit around and talk by candlelight (and console our hysterical children who are noise dependent, thanks to our years living in a duplex, I mean, triplex). It was a cool evening so we sat out on the porch and watched the sun set and didn't miss the distractions or productivity of electricity at all.

Speaking of the old days, check out the ingenious contraption my husband set up for me last weekend:


For those of you born after 1990 (it's hard to believe, but there are ADULTS who were born after 1990!) and have never seen one of these, it's a clothesline. Except this one has a pulley, with one end attached to my side deck, and the other secured to the fence. This means I can open up the door on my side deck and hang out my laundry with these benefits:

• I don't have to put shoes on or get my feet dirty
• I can stand in one place and hang and collect my laundry
• I am just a step outside the door so I can still hear the kids
• My cloth diapers are sun bleached again
  
• I can see it flowing in wind as I stand in the kitchen

My husband is a genius, that's all I can say. He spent $7 to put up a clothesline that would make me excited enough to use and blog about it. That's one smart man.