Posted on 09/18/2007 10:23:19 PM PDT by HarryCaul
BEND, Ore. -- It was a sunny, 70-degree day here in Awbrey Butte, an exclusive neighborhood of big, modern houses surrounded by native pines.
To Susan Taylor, it was a perfect time to hang her laundry out to dry. The 55-year-old mother and part-time nurse strung a clothesline to a tree in her backyard, pinned up some freshly washed flannel sheets -- and, with that, became a renegade.
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"This bombards the senses," interior designer Joan Grundeman says of her neighbor's clothesline.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
We have evolved into a society managed by hall monitors. The same prissy, smug little twits the teachers selected for that duty back in grade school. I would NEVER voluntarily submit myself to their scrutiny because I am nearly certain it would eventually land me in jail.
It would be interesting to have a pro/con list about the Good Old Days like having to use an outhouse on a cold winter night, or the whole ritual of firewood and coal to heat our houses. There are probably more things about the Good Old Days that we wouldn't want to have back than things we miss about them.
I get the odd feeling that it was finally over when she stopped shaving.
Here here! My first rule when were were house hunting - no neighborhood associations. You can’t leave a car up on blocks in our neighborhood, but that is about the limit of the restrictions.
I love to line dry comforters and other bedding. They smell so good. Regular clothing though, into the dryer.
More here.
Yep a lot of us remember and more and more I realize I do not miss the old ways just my childhood. To wake with no aches or pains and nothing to do.
You and I certainly would have been spending lots of time after school on detention!
“an outhouse on a cold winter night.”
reminds me of boyscout campouts & earning a “Polar Bear Award”
for sleeping/camping in 32 degree or less temps. Texas outhouses at least have daddy longleg spiders to keep u company.
the “good ol days”. i didnt live through them, but my parents did. consider military life in the fifties, being stationed at Shemya, Alaska & doing your laundry without a clothes dryer. yes, they hung their clothes out in the cold.
She made mincemeat out of me. I was like a stammering schoolboy around her. Talk about a helpless pawn,...
I would talk about some of her other impressive physical attributes, but discretion dictates better and rare good judgment on my part.
I dated a woman who refused to use a dryer. She said they sped up the wear on clothing - and it does make some sense if you think about it - think of the lint that is generated when you dry clothing - her clothes lasted a long time.
“her clothes lasted a long time.”
Probably a way TOO long.
There’s always the fine print.... Or in my case, reading the whole article.
I remember Mom's reaction when the neighboring farm disked his field on days we had sheets up drying. (and my brother and I playing outside for hours didn't say anything about it)
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