The umbrella clothes dryer has arrived!

It arrived right in the middle of a snow storm! LOL. Since we still have several inches of snow in the backyard, it'll have to wait a few days before I can put it up, but I'm still excited. The outrageously dry climate here in Denver serves at least one purpose - clothes dry insanely fast. Honestly, it freaked me out a bit when we first moved here. I grew up in the South. My mom used to hang out our laundry (on a similar umbrella dryer!) all the time. It dried fine. However, clothes hung outside here - even with no breeze - dry so fast it is amazing! I bought the umbrella dryer and a bag of 100 wooden clothes pins. I'm excited to use it, but I am still too embarrassed to think about hanging out the "unmentionables." Yea, I know - it's silly, but it is what it is!!! I figure that'll just be my own little quirk, and maybe someday I'll get past it, but until then - everything else will get hung out to dry. With as much laundry as I have to do (including diapers), I figure we'll be saving a lot of energy (and money!). Trey laughed at me because I was so excited about it, but he's getting nearly as Earthy and "green" as me lately. (I'm so proud!) I'll take pictures of it when I get it out of the box and in the ground. If anyone is interested, here is the link to the online shop: The Clothesline Shop.