Thursday, October 11, 2007

Rain, rain go away

Every week we play laundry roulette, and last night we lost. We've been making an effort to hang our laundry outside to dry (which makes us rare - does anyone else do this anymore?). What happens is that Andrew washes the clothes when he comes home from work, then looks at the weather report for the next 24 hours to see how likely it is to rain. If it's low then the clothes are hung outside so that they can dry the next day. Last night the prognosis was a 10% chance of rain during the night, but two hours after the clothes went out we got a good, drenching downpour. However, it's supposed to be windy today, so we're waiting to see if they'll dry anyway. Then we can just count it as a second rinse cycle.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Rainwater soft

astrobassist said...

this reminds me of my fear of flying...on the one hand it is completely irrational to be afraid, since I'm not afraid of driving and statistically flying is much safer than driving. On the other hand, it's completely ration because you have to multiply the small chances of the plane going down by the HUGE 'suck' factor (ie., that would really, really suck). Therefore, I am now afraid of driving.

alexis said...

most of the netherlands hangs their laundry to dry. But indoors. If we waited for it to stop raining we'd never have clean clothes