the clothesline....

ok, so....i started into the collected family laundry this morning after i helped with the beef festival race.....and i decided that the clothes really needed to dry outside in the lovely summer sunshine...but to set up the clothesline i had to trim the overgrown euonymous hedge that hides the concrete foundations of the house.....and there was such a chopped up mess of greenery in my wake that i had to rake up the trimmings and haul them in small loads to the compost....and then i had to dust off the clothesline that winters over in miss lulu's cabin....and then...only then...could i hang up the first laundry of the season......whew......i hung up the second load as well...but the third i tossed into the dryer because the line was full...and my urge to be green had passed......wonder how much it will cost me to pay one of my offspring to bring in those clothes that are still hanging out to dry......