Washing Clothes before the storm

Washing Clothes

When it’s the rainy season and you need to wash clothes, you do it when its sunny and you hope for the best.  It was Ivan’s day to wash so the goal was to get things washed before him.  Doug and I began at 7 AM, yes Doug we are going to do some work and there isn’t any coffee, but we will have our hot cinnamon water drinks with Tea soon, not bad, not bad at all.

I realized last night that I only had two pairs of socks and those two pairs were used well the first 3 days. So I needed to do laundry and Doug had some things he needed to wash as well. 

It was a great opportunity to get some things clean and use their techniques, the sinks are built for this and we used a bit of detergent in water, mixed, added clothes and began scrubbing and dunking and scrubbing and dunking.  I had to show Doug that he could really get into it and eventually he was working those clothes into cleanliness.   It was a beautiful day and our clothes were just about dry when we got home for the Hot Spring Pools. 

Good thing as a thunderstorm came in and it has been raining ever since we had our last meal for the evening.  Its such a soothing sound, calming our senses as we concentrate on the rhythm of the drops beating upon the metal roof, the skylight the tile patio.

So we will have to dry the next load inside possibly, there are lines outside and inside.  the panoramic gives you a good idea of the community and the space they have, the clothes lines is on the right when you look out the back upstairs patio.