Laundry Day
	Laundry is one of those that needs to be done. Expats living in the country often have washing machines & dryers and maids who do their laundry. Natives often will bring their clothes down to a river or carry water in a bucket from a well. Then they fill plastic basins, put soap in, and use a washboard by hand. Then they spread the clean clothes on the shrubs or rocks to dry. My system is a combination of 2 activities. Each day of the week, I wash certain unmentionables myself in a bucket in the bathroom. I hang them up over a chair, and by mid day they are dry. Bigger items like pants, shirts, and bedsheets I save. Saturday mornings about 7 am, a woman in the neighborhood stops by do wash them. I supply the plastic basins, washboard, and soap. She takes everything up to the roof. There is a faucet there, and she fills the basins, adds the soap, brings the clean laundry back to my apartment, and hangs it up on a clothesline on the porch. Everything is dry in a couple of hours or less. (Actually, I like wearing it when it is a little wet because it keeps me cooler. A couple of weeks ago it reached 118 degrees.) For this work, which takes about 1 hour, I pay $2. This is more than she asked for initially. I also save clean bottles and empty plastic jars for her to use at her house. She is appreciative for everything that I give her. Please see some pictures here. Well, until next laundry day………..!