Going Greener

We're huge recyclers, we have just one family car, Nigel knows to turn the water off while he's washing his hands and brushing his teeth, we're lovers of public transpo (Tim takes the bus to and from work 98% of the time) and this week we added one more thing to our earth-loving household: a clothesline. I'd like to say we put it up for totally altruistic reasons, but the truth is our dryer crapped out on us. The heating element fizzled out. It's the same thing that happened to our dryer in VA a week before we put the house on the market.

Unfortunately, the dryer that came with our rental house was kind of just left behind ... it's not really part of the agreement. Which is to say, our landlord won't be rushing to fix or replace it — if they even do anything at all. So, while it's so flippin' hot around here, we figured why not toss up a clothesline and let nature do the work!

The only shaded part of our yard (read: the only part that's shielded from the hundreds of birds and their droppings) is under the carport. Thus, our clothesline is part WT and part hippie!