A Taste for Travel

Hi Friends,

Bhakti here today! Well I feel like I’ve gotten the hang of keeping house in Spain. We’ve gotten on the Spanish eating schedule and have three main meals on rotation and four flavors of overnight oats for mornings, so that is keeping things interesting but also allowing us to keep costs down. At night we do tapas and occasionally we indulge in amazing meals out!

I’ve figured out how to use the weird open ended pillow cases, where to buy the freshest produce, and factored air dry time into our laundry. The laundry has straight up TERRIFIED me since day one. We live on the top floor and this is how people hang laundry here…

So I use an exorbitant number of clothespins and pray to the gods every time I hang my cashmere sweater out over the tin roof of the basement apartment five flights below and under the nest of some very well-fed pigeons.

So I guess the following story was inevitable.

Today was sheet washing day. It started like any other sheet washing day. I stripped Jagger’s bed and used the teeny tiny washer to launder one sheet at a time. I hung on tight as I laid the clean sheets over the rack affixed to our windowsill and used about twenty clothespins, gave a silent prayer and closed the window.

Well, a few hours later I looked out and saw things blowing just a tad in a gentle breeze. That is, most of the things were blowing in the breeze, but one sheet was conspicuously missing. My worst fear realized as I stared down at my clean sheet wound around my downstairs neighbor’s AC unit still four flights above ground.

Unfortunately, they were not at home.
So enter Zach. The creative type.

Zach headed to the local Bazaar for some “tools” including a telescoping shower curtain rod, duct tape and kitchen tongs. The resulting apparatus was anything but graceful.

Well…. After some nail biting attempts and a near disaster… with much fanfare and celebration, we recovered the sheet!

Just another family adventure brought to you by the mundane we take for granted 😉 enjoy!

By the way… I’m hanging the laundry inside from now on!