Spring passages

[deborahjross]

Seasonally, I change a bunch of things:

I rotate my wardrobe, such as it is, in this case putting away corduroy pants, wool sweaters, and heavy cotton turtlenecks and taking out T-shirts and jeans (shorts will emerge in a couple of months). I just take out the cardboard boxes, empty and re-fill, stick back in the closet. It always feels as if I've gotten a whole new set of clothes, although most are years and years old. (I used to do this switch-and-hide maneuver with the kids' toys, so they played with only half at a time and they loved getting "new" toys.)

I switch from dryer clothes drying to line drying outside. This can be tricky because I have to guess when the rains are over (usually in May). I scrub the plastic-coated lines and take out my clothes pins. The first load always takes longer to hang up because I'm putting up the pins at the same time. The smell of sun-dried clothing is wonderful!

I change our sheets from winter flannel to summer weight cotton.

I glance around the house, mutter something about spring cleaning, and go back to writing.

So what's your spring routine?

Comments

[calendula-witch.livejournal.com]

Hmm, sun-dried clothes, what a nice idea. I never could do that before...

[kyryn.livejournal.com]

Spring in north Texas means that we suddenly go from heavy pullovers and winter coats to lightweight sweaters and jeans. For me, this means packing up the winter clothes and sorting through my daughter's things to see what won't fit her by next autumn. Spring means repeatedly vacuuming tons of dog hair as our malamute-shepherd mix decides that it's time to switch her coat out. I usually find one weekend in which I madly clean most of the main living areas of the house. It's a time to watch for wildflowers springing up after the daffodils and irises have started, time to get the vegetable starts in after carefully watching for the last frosts, and time to get the insulating leaf piles raked up and into the compost pile. I, too, switch to drying clothes on the line, but that has to wait until after the oak trees have pollinated, so that I won't end up with yellow clothes.

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a major difference is that you have spring/fall clothes, so you really have 3 or 4 wardrobes. I have a few "transition" things, but mostly I can get by in those in-between times with an extra layer. Right now it's a bit chilly for spring, 53 degrees and drippy, so I'm in jeans, long sleeve cotton shirt and sweat shirt. (In other words, my working outfit!) In the winter, it would be warm corduroy pants, heavyweight turtleneck and wool sweater. Next month, it'll be short sleeve T shirt and sweat shirt until it warms up.

Dog hair, gosh yes! We've got a German Shedding Dog! Piles of dog fur everywhere! He blows his coat a couple of times a year without particular regard to the seasons.

Daffys! I miss them (they're not too happy in this climate, although some people manage them okay). We do have iris (and had some hyacinth earlier). For some reason, the roses are going like gangbusters right now, which is fine by me.