Today... yes I did laundry. Six loads, but then, I have a small apartment sized washing machine. There is no laundry hook up on the main floor, and I refuse to carry baskets of laundry outside to get into the basement where there is a laundry hook up. I tried when I first bought the house, but that lasted about 2 months. I kept thinking of the difficulty in the winter - and I would probably fall on the stairs with a full basket of clean laundry, knowing my clumsiness. I love hanging everything out in good weather because it has such a wonderful fresh air and sunshine odour when you bring it in. I don't care how many experiments scientists do with chemicals, they will never be able to reproduce the smell of fresh air and sunshine. I love getting into bed in the evening of laundry day. I washed most of my blouses and t-shirts today, too, just because. So my closet also smells like fresh air and sunshine! Every time I pass the bedroom door, I open it and take a big breath. Lovely.
I also washed all the windows in the back porch, and put up the last two sets of curtains. It really looks like a room now, and I have the privacy of the mini-blinds. Joss came over yesterday and moved the mini-blind I had put up. I had tried to get the mini-blind and the curtain rod hardware on the window frame, but it meant that the mini-blind had no centre support. So he moved it up, and moved the curtain rod hardware to above the window frame. It is all good now and, bless him, he put up the other three mini-blinds. So I put up one more of the curtains yesterday, and the other two today. In between loads of laundry on and off the lines.
I do love my back porch. I loved it before I did the window treatments, but even more now. I spend so much time here. If I'm not in the craft room, I'm here. I have the computer, my lazyboy chair, radio, iTunes, books.
Since I gave up the satellite dish, I haven't used the livingroom at all. The cats have their beds on the couch, and I have to pass through it to get the craft room or the front porch. I sweep the floor or vacuum once in awhile, and dust even less often!
I also spent way too much time on Pinterest looking at handmade cards posted by various people, and re-pinning them to my boards. I also copied some images, cropped them in photoshop and then put them in a word document to print out. That way, I can have ones that are giving me ideas in the craft room rather than running back and forth from one end of the house to the other to look at the computer.
I called Eleanor and asked her to come over and appreciate my porch too! She did think it was lovely. And also agreed that once the leaves were off the trees, I will enjoy having the privacy I lost when the big apartment building went up. Not that I think everyone is standing at their windows staring into my house, but I can look into their spaces, which means they can look into mine. And I would rather they didn't. You can see the top floor of the apartment building in the top left of the centre picture. It is actually closer than it looks. And because my porch is pretty much all window, it is easy to see in.
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