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kareinaWhen I was a kid I was taught to wash the sheets and pillowcases every week. In those days I had a single bed, only one pillow, a large top-loading washing machine that took only about 30 minutes to run a load, and a dryer. This meant that the whole process from stripping the bed to making it again (IF I wanted to re-use the same sheets) took not much more than an hour, perhaps an hour and a half, tops.
These days I have a king-sized bed, between the two of us we have eight pillows (and I use two pillow cases on each), and we each have our own doona (mine is a real one, filled with down, his has a horrid polyester filling). We don't have quite enough pillowcases, and we still have only the one fitted sheet that fits the new bed, so it is necessary to get it all dried and put back on the bed before we want to sleep in it. Our front-loading washer is small enough this means that it takes four loads of laundry to wash all of the sheets, doona covers, and pillows cases. Even using the "extra fast wash" button on the washer each load takes 1.5 hours to wash, and we have no dryer, which means either I wait for a good enough day to hang them outside, or I hang them in the sauna with a heater/fan running in hopes that each load is dry enough to take down before the next one comes out of the washer.
Today was a nice enough day that I could dry them outside, and between the wind and the sun each load was dry before the next one came out (which is good, since the clothes line won't hold all that much at one time). This means that I started laundry at 08:30 and brought the last load in from the line at 15:50. A lot of time and bother, but I am so looking forward to sleeping in the nice clean sheets!
No wonder I put off washing the sheets so long these days! The fact that it can be several weeks before I am willing to invest that much time into the project also helps explain why I want double pillow cases--without a dryer I won't wash my pillows, so I would rather give them extra protection.
However, while the laundry runs one can accomplish other things. Today, in sessions of 1.5 hours or less I:
*took the car in for service and replacing the break pads (and got a ride home from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lord_kjar, who followed along in his work car).
*Picked enough black currants to fill three trays in the food dehydrator (I could have picked many more, but the alarm went off to take sheets out of the washer)
*cut my round shield for the Nordanil Lajv from the boards I had glued together the other day (these had previously been the top of a pallet we had on hand, so this project is costing only time, not materials)
*cut the center hole for the shield
*glued down the reinforcing ribs and handle to the shield
*gave the shield a base coat of grey paint (same stuff we painted the concrete floor with)
*made a pattern for the shield-boss
*cut out a shield-boss from some scrap sheepskin that had once been a coat that shrunk after getting wet
*read more than 150 pages of my book in progress
*picked up the car after service/break repair
*ran enough almonds through the hand-crank grater to re-fill the almond flour jar (and sifted out the big chunks, which I ate in some oatmeal)
*cooked up the zucchini the neighbour gave us from her garden with some snowpeas, leek, garlic, left over rice, cashews, sesame seeds, egg, and butter
I still need to go for a walk, since, as you can see, that list is rather lacking in exercise, and do my yoga. I guess I should turn off the computer soon.
Tomorrow needs to be another go to the office and work on the revisions to that paper day. If I have a productive morning doing that then my reward can be more projects at home.
These days I have a king-sized bed, between the two of us we have eight pillows (and I use two pillow cases on each), and we each have our own doona (mine is a real one, filled with down, his has a horrid polyester filling). We don't have quite enough pillowcases, and we still have only the one fitted sheet that fits the new bed, so it is necessary to get it all dried and put back on the bed before we want to sleep in it. Our front-loading washer is small enough this means that it takes four loads of laundry to wash all of the sheets, doona covers, and pillows cases. Even using the "extra fast wash" button on the washer each load takes 1.5 hours to wash, and we have no dryer, which means either I wait for a good enough day to hang them outside, or I hang them in the sauna with a heater/fan running in hopes that each load is dry enough to take down before the next one comes out of the washer.
Today was a nice enough day that I could dry them outside, and between the wind and the sun each load was dry before the next one came out (which is good, since the clothes line won't hold all that much at one time). This means that I started laundry at 08:30 and brought the last load in from the line at 15:50. A lot of time and bother, but I am so looking forward to sleeping in the nice clean sheets!
No wonder I put off washing the sheets so long these days! The fact that it can be several weeks before I am willing to invest that much time into the project also helps explain why I want double pillow cases--without a dryer I won't wash my pillows, so I would rather give them extra protection.
However, while the laundry runs one can accomplish other things. Today, in sessions of 1.5 hours or less I:
*took the car in for service and replacing the break pads (and got a ride home from
lord_kjar, who followed along in his work car).*Picked enough black currants to fill three trays in the food dehydrator (I could have picked many more, but the alarm went off to take sheets out of the washer)
*cut my round shield for the Nordanil Lajv from the boards I had glued together the other day (these had previously been the top of a pallet we had on hand, so this project is costing only time, not materials)
*cut the center hole for the shield
*glued down the reinforcing ribs and handle to the shield
*gave the shield a base coat of grey paint (same stuff we painted the concrete floor with)
*made a pattern for the shield-boss
*cut out a shield-boss from some scrap sheepskin that had once been a coat that shrunk after getting wet
*read more than 150 pages of my book in progress
*picked up the car after service/break repair
*ran enough almonds through the hand-crank grater to re-fill the almond flour jar (and sifted out the big chunks, which I ate in some oatmeal)
*cooked up the zucchini the neighbour gave us from her garden with some snowpeas, leek, garlic, left over rice, cashews, sesame seeds, egg, and butter
I still need to go for a walk, since, as you can see, that list is rather lacking in exercise, and do my yoga. I guess I should turn off the computer soon.
Tomorrow needs to be another go to the office and work on the revisions to that paper day. If I have a productive morning doing that then my reward can be more projects at home.
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Date: 2014-08-07 05:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-08-07 11:56 am (UTC)The calendar claims that it has been more than 15 years since you and I and a very small Bear used to go on adventures together, yet the memory is still so fresh that, even now, every time I see a pretty wild flower or a lovely stone I think of you and wish you were by my side to point it out. I hope that you one day make the journey to northern Sweden--there is so much here you would appreciate, and I would love to spend a day or a week in your company again.