Airing our Dirty Laundry

Before I start on today's post,  I wanted to let you know that the eggs in the nest on the front cov­ered porch hatched yes­ter­day! I can see 4, maybe 5 teeny tiny naked birds no big­ger than a nickel!

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As with most every­thing, our Little House pro­vides ben­e­fits for some things being handy, other things, not so handy.

Take the laun­dry, which is one of my least favorite things to do. About the only thing I enjoy about it is hav­ing it folded and put away until next time.

At our house in the city, we lit­er­ally had enough clothes in our clos­ets that allowed me to some­times let the laun­dry go for up to 3 weeks at a time. Of course, Dale had uni­forms where he worked and they did that dirty, oily laun­dry, so it was mainly my clothes and his week­end wear.

Here at our Little House, we don’t have much closet or dresser space and I can barely scoot past the dirty chore for more than a week. As well, there isn’t room to put many dirty clothes – unlike our house in the city – where the clothes­bas­ket was in a spare bed­room where I could just shut the door.

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