I always wanted a clothesline....

The smell of clothing and bedding fresh washed and hung to dry in the sunshine has always been one of my favorite things.  Probably because for most of my childhood we had a huge clothesline on the back of our farm house and in the summertime my mother would hang almost everything she washed out there to dry.  It was something I looked forward to each summer and when we moved and my parents didn't put a clothesline in at the new farm something I missed often.

You would think since a clothesline is such a simple thing I would have just put one up when I moved out onto my own....but I was freshly married and my husband didn't like projects like that just for my happiness and he frowned upon me doing things just for joy.  So I put my memories of clotheslines and all the associated happiness aside...like so many other things...and focused on my families wants rather than my own.  Regardless of how simple it would have been to do this one thing for myself, even back then!

When I moved to my new farm without the judgmental wasband one of the first things I installed was a clothesline.

It is simple, cost me less than $20 and I installed it on my existing patio posts.  When I am not using it the little thing rolls up the line and keeps it dry and safe and when I want to dry clothes on it I just roll it out and hook it to the other side.  Easy as could be.  Yet drying almost everything I wash all summer long (like the dog beds here!) makes me JUST has happy as it did when I was a child.  When I climb into my bed after sheet day and smell my freshly washed bedding that dyed in the sunshine I am reminded of all those good things in my past and so many wonderful things about my present.  Like I can have a clothesline if I want one. :)

Life is too short to be anything but happy, don't put off your clothesline.