line in my backyard for the first time ever.
I went down to the local Kmart and looked for a clothesline and clothespins.I wasn’t too sure they still made them, but I thought if they did they would surely have them at Kmart. I was pleased to find they did.
I don’t have the poles for the line in my yard like I did in my childhood home, so I set my clothesline up in the corner of the yard using the 45 degree angle of the fence to hang my line. When I was finished, I stepped back to admire my work and I was pleased with myself for thinking of it, conserving energy, and doing my part.
What I wasn’t prepared for were the feelings and the memories that came flooding back to me as I hung up that first load of laundry.
Being out in the yard, smelling freshly washed towels, and with the sun on my back, I was suddenly in my yard I grew up in—helping my grandmother hang out the clothes.
She was always barefoot, dressed in a Hawaiian print mumu with an apron tied around her waist, safety pins on her dress front and a rubberband or two around her wrist (just in case someone needed one). She would have her wicker basket full of clothes at her feet and a few wet items thrown over her shoulder as she hung clothes. Usually she would be singing a song or talking to the cats in the yard. Or sometimes she’d tell me a story about her childhood or her mother.
If she had a bad day or something was bothering her, I remember she would say, “I sure wish I could sit on my mama’s lap for a minute.”
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All of that came rushing back to me crystal clear, like it happened yesterday. I could see her, feel her standing there with me.
It has been at least 25 years since I have been in that yard with my grandma. I remember my grandmother often, think of her and miss her, but that first day in my backyard hanging clothes I felt like I had visited with her.
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.amdnarg ym htiw tisiv elttil a evah dna—lla ta gnihton ro ,sgniht tuoba kniht dna yad ysub ym fo tuo tnemom a ekat tsuj ot emit eht esu dna yrdnual ym gnah ot dray eht ni tuo gniog yojne I
。熱炎氣天，月七夏盛
！吧假個放器電的你讓候時的午下在“：話句那的說裡告廣視電起想我。的疚內挺得覺我讓，機衣乾動開下溫氣的高麼這在。息窒人讓得悶是在實氣空的裡那，驚一了吃時服衣洗去庫車進走我
