Third Laundry Load in Six Months

Biodynamically speaking, this was a day that was better to do nothing than to do something. And, just a reminder: plan to do no gardening on Friday and Saturday. As Maria Thun says:

From Good Friday to Easter Saturday we do no work in the garden at all. In numerous trials we have repeatedly found that garden work of any kind during this period, including harvest, does plants and people no good. Fewer seeds germinate, fruits are smaller, produce quality is diminished and medicinal herbs have less healing power. However we ponder this question, ultimately we always come back to the conviction that the cosmic event at Golgotha penetrated and imbued the earth, and plants annually participate in this.

This morning when we got up, we had done only two loads of laundry since October. So Phil took the sleeping bags and bags and bags of other clothes and headed out to do laundry. It was about $70 in quarters, but our pillows, sleeping bags, clothes, and milking cloths all smell and look delightful. It's amazing to me that Phil can accomplish, in three or four hours, three months of laundry, including most folding. (Then I spend about the same amount of time sorting the clean clothes and stuffing them into drawers.)