Jon and Angela Button Just another weblog 
One setback to renting a furnished apartment in Portugal is the lack of certain modern conveniences I used to take for granted. The microwave. The dishwasher. The DRYER! I never knew how much I could miss a dryer! Most Portuguese don’t have a dryer. It is all line dried. This makes doing laundry an even more loathly chore, as there are now two extra steps of hanging it all up and taking it all down… and sometimes I even have to rearrange them to fit more on the line or get the sleeves dry! I know, some of you ladies are thinking, “Well, when I was first married we didn’t have…,” but I happen to like less work so I can do other things… like more work (there’s lots to do with three little ones)! Not to mention I’m supposed to learn a language on top of it all! The worst part of line drying has been that our clothes sometimes they don’t dry for days! I sometimes feel like I am under a huge pile of clean, dirty, wet and dry laundry.
This has been the coldest winter on record in 30 years! The good news is that the sunshine and warmth have finally returned to Portugal! Now my laundry will at least be dry at the end of each day. We took this picture one morning about two minutes after hanging these clothes up. You can see the steam evaporating right off. I look forward to these warmer days ahead when this sight will be ordinary once more! Pretty cool, huh?
