Flag Day

Although our house is a one-story house, we live on a hillside, and our basement is a "daylight" basement. A few years ago we remodeled part of our basement into a room for our son, and moved our laundry to another room. There used to be a laundry chute to drop clothes down, but now there's not.

We have some mesh hampers that aren't hard to carry because they're tall and narrow and have a handle.

Still, it's not much fun to haul a hamper full of dirty laundry down these concrete stairs.

I've thought we should rig a pulley from the deck off the kitchen so we can lower and raise the hampers, but of course I've never gotten around to it.

[The Man I Love] is a more creative thinker than I am. This morning, he said, "why don't we just drop them down?" and he lifted them over the railing and dropped them down through the jacaranda branches to the deck below.

They landed OK, with just a little thud. Cool! Great idea! So we loaded up the washer and started our weekend laundry chores.

Only guess what I saw when I went back upstairs? One of [The Man I Love]'s tighty whities got snagged on a branch!