Comments on: More Ornamental Laundry

By: ryan

ryan — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:51:23 +0000

Country peasant pleasant. Exactly. Get a nice sunny day and hang some laundry, add some color to the yard for a while. Flagstone almost always turns out nice, so I’d say go for it.

By: Country Mouse

Country Mouse — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:20:56 +0000

In my Scottish childhood of course tumble driers were a thought unthunk, and we had a “pulley’ in the kitchen for drying when it was (frequently) wet - a rack of four horizontal poles the length of the kitchen that you hoisted to the ceiling to keep it out of the way. I want to get into line drying but haven’t worked up the energy - but Town Mouse recently gave me a set of her line drying accessories, Japanese plastic hangers clips on a single hook you can hang up, so my excuses are dwindling. I love your patio with the laundry - it’s very country peasanty pleasant! I’m inspired to create such a patio myself from seeing yours and I really think I will - a flagstone patio on our undeveloped flat south garden would look great and I love working in stone. Fingers crossed I can just keep these old muscles working!

By: ryan

ryan — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:40:03 +0000

ST - I don’t know if clotheslines are so novel, but i like the idea of using a blog post to give people a blank stare. What is ‘therblligginess?’
DM - I don’t know if I’d hang dry as much if I lived in the NW or Wisconsin. Freeze-dried laundry sounds a little extreme for me.

By: Daniel Mount

Daniel Mount — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:26:23 +0000

Ryan, My mother used to hang clothes out during really cold weather in Wisconsin. They would be freeze-dried. I never smelled sheets so fresh again. In the Pacific NW even our towels don’t dry out in 24 hours. We do have a wood burning stove so you’ll find our living room full of those old timey wooden accordian racks full of laundry. It takes days to get the jeans dry. But no ” how did these pants get so tight?” feeling in the morning. We also have an electric clothes drier.

By: Susan Tomlinson

Susan Tomlinson — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:28:45 +0000

Oooh, Ryan! This is a blog after my own heart.

I like line drying, though I don’t do as much of it as I should. I need to work on the therblligginess of it–make it more convenient for me than it is right now.

I agree about not judging the success of the post by the comments. SOmetimes I’ll say something to my students in class, only to be met with what I am interpreting as a blank stare. Later, I’ll find out from one of them that whatever it was I said was such a novel idea to them that they were a bit nonplussed. Maybe clotheslines are that novel to people now.

By: ryan

ryan — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:31:59 +0000

I liked that post, though I guess I didn’t comment either. I find that comments are not the only way to judge the popularity of a post. Same with Blotanical. There are a lot of blog readers out there without blogs of their own so they don’t ever leave comments.
Those retractable lines are clever. We use a cane of bamboo to hoist it above our sight line.
I hadn’t noticed the patriotic color scheme, but yesterday might have been a patriotic day for me. I spray painted U-S-A on a client’s lawn, though it was for utility service to mark the power lines, not for jingoistic reasons. I had to google Laura Ashley to figure out what that meant. I seem to be in my REI clothing department days.