Sign of Spring: Laundry Drying in the Breeze

The 2009 spring season has launched. My car thermometer read 52 at 4 p.m., the sun is shining, ice is melting, it was CSA day at the co-op (which surely heralds the growing season), and I have my first load of laundry of the season hanging -- well, flapping almost horizontally -- on the line. And we are grilling chicken on the barbie for dinner. But I am probably happiest about the laundry. I had to walk over some snow to get to the laundry line, and my feet slipped in the melty, muddy ground where the snow has already disappeared, but it was worth it.