Clothesline weather, revisited

Baby clothes drying on the line.

Back in May, I wrote about how my husband, who does the laundry in our house, has been using a clothesline for several years.

When I had told him what my post was about that week, he confessed that he hadn't been hanging out as many clothes as he used to. Last year, he was hanging out everything except our unmentionables. This summer, only one load a week got hung out to dry, which made the umbrella-style pop-up clothesline in the background of the photo above unnecessary.

He and I both vowed to do better, with me promising to help hang out clothes if he wants. So far, he hasn't asked for me to help, but because he's a man of his word, he took the pop-up clothesline out of the garage recently, stuck it in the ground and went back to hanging out everything but our underwear.

Side note: Did you know that if you don't use a pop-up clothesline for a year or so, the ground builds up around the cement hole you made for it? It took my husband and daughter several minutes to locate it.