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Cleaning Up:  Crazy Clothesline Controversy!  |
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Catherine Seiberling Pond
Farmgirl in Training
39 Posts
Catherine
Knob Region
KY
39 Posts |
 Posted - Jul 12 2009 : 1:23:21 PM
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Hi there,
There was a great piece on the clothesline movement in America on CBS Sunday Morning today. I was so moved that I blogged about it:
www.inthepantry.blogspot.com/2009/07/right-to-dry.html
And I'd forgotten how many clotheslines photos I have in my archive! [And I love laundry rooms almost as much as pantries...
I'm new to the board and maybe this topic has been discussed before but I doubt that any farm girl has a problem with clotheslines!
Enjoy the rest of your Sunday and the start of your week ~
Best,
Catherine
Farm girl at heart and in practice. Food/memoir writer and historian. Check out my blog at www.InthePantry.blogspot.com |
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Woodswoman
True Blue Farmgirl
512 Posts
Jennifer
Altamont
NY
USA
512 Posts |
Posted - Jul 12 2009 : 4:47:56 PM
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Thanks for sharing-I LOVE my clothesline!
Jennifer
Farmgirl Sister #104
"Nature brings to every time and season some beauties of its own".
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brightmeadow
True Blue Farmgirl
2045 Posts
Brenda
Lucas
Ohio
USA
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1930sgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
233 Posts
Joyce
Alberta
Canada
233 Posts |
Posted - Jul 12 2009 : 8:14:59 PM
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Thanks, Catherine
I can hardly believe that anyone would want to ban clotheslines. I have the sweetest memories of the ones my Mom and Grandma had. It gives me a such a nice feeling, just thinking about them and how wonderful the clothes and sheets smelled after a day warming in the sun.
I have been wanting a clothesline of my own. I sure hope there isn't going to be a law against drying my families clothes. How silly is that?!
Your blog is wonderful,
Joyce
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Catherine Seiberling Pond
Farmgirl in Training
39 Posts
Catherine
Knob Region
KY
39 Posts |
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Catherine Seiberling Pond
Farmgirl in Training
39 Posts
Catherine
Knob Region
KY
39 Posts |
Posted - Jul 12 2009 : 9:12:00 PM
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Thank you, Joyce...and yes it IS silly! Ridiculous, really, when you consider all of the more pressing and greater issues out there to worry about or legislate!
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Originally posted by 1930sgirl
Thanks, Catherine
I can hardly believe that anyone would want to ban clotheslines. I have the sweetest memories of the ones my Mom and Grandma had. It gives me a such a nice feeling, just thinking about them and how wonderful the clothes and sheets smelled after a day warming in the sun.
I have been wanting a clothesline of my own. I sure hope there isn't going to be a law against drying my families clothes. How silly is that?!
Your blog is wonderful,
Joyce
Farm girl at heart and in practice. Food/memoir writer and historian. Check out my blog at www.InthePantry.blogspot.com |
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Beverly Gill
True Blue Farmgirl
1114 Posts
Beverly
Marlborough
USA
1114 Posts |
Posted - Jul 15 2009 : 04:50:09 AM
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I love my clothesline too------I wonder how much $$$$ its saving me---but that doesn't even bother me---I just love to put my clothes out on the line.
Have a good day, ladies
Beverly |
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dutchy
True Blue Farmgirl
4427 Posts
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Posted - Jul 15 2009 : 07:04:58 AM
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Interesting! I never heard of banning clothes lines here. So maybe we don't ban them lol. I see so many clothes lines when I do my mail route :) I too have one, I am ashamed to admit I never used it, DUH!! But will do asap as I hang my line between the posts ;)
Hugs from Marian/Dutchy, a farmgirl from the Netherlands :)
My personal blog:
http://just-me-a-dutch-girl.blogspot.com/
Almost daily updates on me and mine :)
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JessieMae
True Blue Farmgirl
702 Posts
Jessie
Raleigh
North Carolina
USA
702 Posts |
Posted - Jul 16 2009 : 09:34:37 AM
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That's an excellent story, Catherine. You're a gifted writer! (And your website is pretty, too!)
Jessie Mae
Farmgirl Sisterhood #134 |
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Bellepepper
True Blue Farmgirl
1207 Posts
Belle
Coffeyville
KS
USA
1207 Posts |
Posted - Jul 17 2009 : 6:21:33 PM
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Using my closeline is my contribution to "going green" and wonder why no one mentions it when they tell us what size cars we should drive. I hang out a lot of our laundry even in the winter. But, I don't hang up underware and sox. Not because I don't want anyone to see, it's because it takes too long and uses a lot of closepins. Don't remember the last time I put jeans or sweats in the dryer. I air out my bedding but put towels in the dryer.
Old memory of cloths line. When I was a kid, we had a horse that we could ride without a bridle. We never had a saddle. Anyway, when the horse got tired of us kids, she would just run under the cloths line and it would take us off. I think of that often when I forget to duck when walking under the cloths line comming to the house from the garden. |
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Contrary Wife
True Blue Farmgirl
2164 Posts
Teresa Sue
Tekoa
WA
USA
2164 Posts |
Posted - Jul 18 2009 : 06:28:35 AM
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Wonderful blog, I added it to my favs!
Teresa Sue
Farmgirl Sister #316
Planting Zone 4
"Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly." The Dalai Lama |
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Huckelberrywine
True Blue Farmgirl
1607 Posts
Michelle
Rosalia
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Posted - Jul 18 2009 : 09:51:54 AM
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I'm lucky. In with the power bill this month, the company actually suggested to everyone to use clotheslines to save power. Each month they have cost-cutting tips. How about that? I'm glad to live in a place where clotheslines make others smile too.
Fantastic blog! Love the second photo of the woman in front of her clothesline. So get that. :)
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Edited by - Huckelberrywine on Jul 18 2009 09:56:37 AM |
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Catherine Seiberling Pond
Farmgirl in Training
39 Posts
Catherine
Knob Region
KY
39 Posts |
Posted - Jul 18 2009 : 09:59:26 AM
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Blogging about blackberries this morning and enjoying so many comments about clotheslines and my writing. Thank you all. Now I have to take advantage of a cool dry day here in Kentucky and hang out some stuff...
Farm girl at heart and in practice. Food/memoir writer and historian. Check out my blog at www.InthePantry.blogspot.com |
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
11303 Posts |
Posted - Jul 23 2009 : 2:59:13 PM
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What a great blog you have, Catherine. I was there awhile. I love the story of the clothes lines. I can't imagine not having mine. Especially with my homemade washing soap. I do love my towels hung out, though. The rougher the better for me. I like them that way to get the water off. A soft towel just doesn't dry me off good.
Then I went to your chicken house pics. Oh my goodness, what a great house that id. I would live there myself. I bet those girls are spoiled rotten. That's the nicest hen house I have seen.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
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Catherine Seiberling Pond
Farmgirl in Training
39 Posts
Catherine
Knob Region
KY
39 Posts |
Posted - Jul 23 2009 : 4:04:08 PM
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Thank you, Kris! I noticed you live in Chicamauga, GA? Is that named for a kind of chicken 
I'm glad you came by and hope you'll visit again.
And yes, my chickens are spoiled rotten (and one rooster that was unplanned--but I'm thrilled! As long as he behaves himself and doesn't rile the girls all up...). Lately I've been singing TAPS to them at night and they seem to like that.
I've also conquered the dog problem: they have a prolonged siesta on our back porch (on the north side with a deep porch and roof), that we can close off, while the chickens free-range from about 4pm until 9pm at which time they'll go in their house to roost all on their own. So far so good!
One has to keep the peace whenever possible 
Blessings,
Catherine
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Originally posted by kristin sherrill
What a great blog you have, Catherine. I was there awhile. I love the story of the clothes lines. I can't imagine not having mine. Especially with my homemade washing soap. I do love my towels hung out, though. The rougher the better for me. I like them that way to get the water off. A soft towel just doesn't dry me off good.
Then I went to your chicken house pics. Oh my goodness, what a great house that id. I would live there myself. I bet those girls are spoiled rotten. That's the nicest hen house I have seen.
Kris
Happiness is simple.
Farm girl at heart and in practice. Food/memoir writer and historian. Check out my blog at www.InthePantry.blogspot.com |
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MrsDirtDoctor
True Blue Farmgirl
165 Posts
Hallowell
Maine
USA
165 Posts |
Posted - Jul 29 2009 : 09:25:05 AM
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whymsicalmysfit
True Blue Farmgirl
52 Posts
jaime
malden
washington
USA
52 Posts |
Posted - Jul 30 2009 : 1:29:29 PM
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Here is my line..Wouldnt live without it! BEND...SNAP...PIN....BEND ..SNAP..PIN..
The only thing that bothers me is the wasps that hide in the clothes..aaarg! Can you blame them ? I wish I could hang out on a freshly hung quilt and enjoy the sky aaaah the life of Bees! One of my favorite memories as a kid.. runnin arms streatched wide through the freshly hung clothes and that smell aaaah the smell its carved into my heart! Now my babes do that and its like a magical labrinth in a damp forest covered in sunshine.. nothin better then playin in wet clothes on a hot day.... now thats livin!
"May all your weeds be wildflowers"
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Edited by - whymsicalmysfit on Aug 02 2009 11:46:37 AM |
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Catherine Seiberling Pond
Farmgirl in Training
39 Posts
Catherine
Knob Region
KY
39 Posts |
Posted - Jul 30 2009 : 1:35:14 PM
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Lovely!
Farm girl at heart and in practice. Food/memoir writer and historian. Check out my blog at www.InthePantry.blogspot.com |
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
11303 Posts |
Posted - Jul 30 2009 : 3:29:30 PM
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My kids do that too, Jaime, except they have 4 legs! Sometimes I put them in the back yard to eat the grass back there and they run through the clothes. Only a few times I've had to pick things off the ground.
The other day my hubby brought some of his pants in and I heard a buzzing noise. He of course couldn't because he has selective hearing. But there was a big huge bumblebee inside his pants leg. That would have hurt bad.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
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whymsicalmysfit
True Blue Farmgirl
52 Posts
jaime
malden
washington
USA
52 Posts |
Posted - Jul 31 2009 : 09:01:58 AM
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Good Morning kristin! well If you ask me you have some pretty clever pups! Im telling ya those bumbles pack a punch! I have more of a problem with the wasps.. I have noticed though if I wait until later in the evening to grab my clothes off the line the bees are too sleepy to attack!! I wonder how many people have had to learn that the hard way about bees in their jeans! I must say good job girl haven a guy that grabs his clothes off the line now that to me is one of the sexiest thing my husband does!! ya know its the little things!!
"May all your weeds be wildflowers"
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prairie_princess
True Blue Farmgirl
613 Posts
Elizabeth
Carpenter
WY
USA
613 Posts |
Posted - Aug 02 2009 : 11:15:32 AM
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thanks for posting! sometimes i just don't understand people... everyone is into the "green movement", but refuses to accept some of the simplest things we can do to be green. (i might have to write a new thread about this topic). i don't think clotheslines are an eyesore at all.... i think they are quite romantic, actually. i'm glad i live in such a small town where people don't care about "eyesores".
we have a very poor neighbor who has 8 little girls and whose husband is currently in jail.... she can't afford to not hang her clothes out. plus, her washing machine just broke, so has to resort to washing her clothes by hand. if those clothesline banners came knocking at her door telling her she couldn't hang her clothes out, what could she do? i would be fuming....
"Only two things that money can't buy, that's true love and homegrown tomatoes."
- Guy Clark
"The man who has planted a garden feels he has done something for the good of the world."
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prairie_princess
True Blue Farmgirl
613 Posts
Elizabeth
Carpenter
WY
USA
613 Posts |
Posted - Aug 02 2009 : 11:17:10 AM
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actually, does anyone have any tips for winter clothes drying? i havn't tried it yet, but would like to....
"Only two things that money can't buy, that's true love and homegrown tomatoes."
- Guy Clark
"The man who has planted a garden feels he has done something for the good of the world."
- Charles Dudley Warner |
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whymsicalmysfit
True Blue Farmgirl
52 Posts
jaime
malden
washington
USA
52 Posts |
Posted - Aug 02 2009 : 11:42:10 AM
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Elizabeth, When I was small my mom had a 2 wooden racks and it sat next to our wood stove.. yeah sometimes our clothes smelled like wood and a little smoke but not enough that it was offensive I actually love that smell on my clothes.. sometimes my dad would run a line across the house and we would have clothes hangen out it was fun!.. one fall our dryer broke and so I just hung the clothes on hangers and hung them on my curtan rods for the winter it works! I have friends that have not had electricity for 20 yrs & hang their clothes from lines placed creatively around the house she even took an old crib frame ya know the matal part that goes under the crib mattress? well she mounted that above her stove and you can dry just about anything from that it was a nice place to hang the pots and pans! man your a farmgirl just be creative..cant wait to see what you come up with-Jaime
"May all your weeds be wildflowers"
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anniecat
Farmgirl at Heart
8 Posts
Michigan
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Posted - Aug 17 2009 : 1:41:59 PM
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I'm pretty sure my neighbors won't complain about my clothesline. Its on the other side of my garage, making it closer to their house then mine, so they asked me a few years back if I would mind if they used it. My allergies are so bad, I can't hang clothes outside, so it works out fine.
When I lived in Ireland, basically no one had dryers and in the cold, winter months, your clothes were hung on racks near the fireplace. Of course I had the added bonus that the lady I rented my room from also ironed all my clothes, including my jeans-lol. |
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N@n
True Blue Farmgirl
223 Posts
Hackett
Arkansas
USA
223 Posts |
Posted - Aug 17 2009 : 2:12:11 PM
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When we moved from Michigan to Arkansas 25 years ago, I refused to buy a house in an upscale neighborhood that had a covenant against hanging clothes outside. That was NOT the neighborhood for me!! I hang clothes out much of the time. Saves on the light bill and what fresh smelling clothes we have! I still remember my mother rushing next door to take down "Viola's" laundry because Viola was at the store or somewhere and a storm blew up. WHen Viola got home her laundry would be safe and dry in her porch. This was common among neighbors just a few years ago. Also remember my mother's warning to my brothers as they went out to the "Burn barrel" to burn the day's paper accumulation-"Remember to see if anyone has laundry hanging out and don't burn if they do!!" We would never have wanted to make the neighbor's laundry smell smoky!
N@n.
keep searchin'-it's out there somewhere. |
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Caron
True Blue Farmgirl
535 Posts
Caron
Orange
Texas
USA
535 Posts |
Posted - Aug 17 2009 : 3:53:58 PM
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A few years back I had a friend who lived in goverment housing. Each unit (duplex) had a clothesline. One day the board decided all clotheslines had to come down and everyone (over 50 duplex units) had to use the four washers and five dryers provided by the housing complex. That meant there was never a time the washers and dryers were not in use, even in the wee hours of the morning (not a safe time for anyone to be doing laundry) plus both cost money to use.
My husband and I even went before the board on her, and everyone's, behalf to try to get them to leave the clotheslines in place. But to them, they were an "eyesore" and they got them all taken down.
On well,today the whole complex sits empty.
Caron
"Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation".
Farmgirl #254
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