Sometime ago my husband finally got around to putting up my clothes line. Knowing that the kids wouldn’t want to help, we came up with the idea of telling them that Dad was building a solar dryer and they were going to be the helpers. WoW! A solar dryer, that sounded like a really important project and they were both on board for something fun. As the day progressed and the project began to take shape, they both realized that a solar dryer wasn’t anything fancy. In fact, it was just a regular old clothesline that meant they were going to have to do more work! They both knew those clothes didn’t get solar dried without some body’s nimble fingers helping.

Several hours later, the lines were taunt, the clothespins clipped, the sun was shining and all that was needed were some clothes. Lucky for them, I had a load ready and waiting.

I sent my daughter out to hang up the load so we could try out our new solar dryer. After she had finished, I looked out to admire the laundry waving in the wind, for some reason, there didn’t seem to be as many articles of clothing as I thought there would be. Walking out on the deck to look closer, I noticed that none of my daughter’s clothes were actually hanging on the line. Walking back into the house, I called to my daughter asking her why her clothes weren’t on the line. I couldn’t help but smile as she told me her things felt dry enough! Needless to say, I made her hang her clothes out too!

Our solar dryer is pictured above. The snapshot was taken from the deck!