After 7 years, time to replace the clothes line! That means getting the cotton line with the nylon cord at the center from Herzogs. First measure how long your line wants to be. Then double it cause you want it to glide along on those cool wheels attached to each end. Then you need the line tightener, this cool metal thing that you send the end of the cotton line through after you tied the other end to the ring. It just pulls the line tight. You are simply making a huge long loop. Be sure you get the funny looking wooden things that make sure that the line does not sloop too low when you hang stuff on the bottom of the line. And WOODEN clothes pins in a basket or cotton hanger.Why go to all this trouble???????????????????? As the British magazine, Selvedge says, if we all hung our clothes on the line, do you realize HOW MUCH ELECTRIC WE WOULD SAVE? ENORMOUS AMOUNTS!! DRYERS TAKE UP HUGE AMOUNTS OF ENERGY. THINK ABOUT IT. HEAT AND SWIRLING TUMBLER.
But the BEST part about the clothes line is that you first of all get to be outside in the air while accomplishing something. Secondly, you are creating art. Fabric in the Wind can be so beeeutiful and you can watch your clothing and linens float themselves dry. (they like it so much more than a dark hot dryer). Third is when you get them inside and sleep with them, you can not believe where that delicious scent came from. I still can not, after a lifetime of hanging out the laundry, figure how they pick up that amazing fresh scent. Unlike that horrible stuff that they put in all those detergents now that assure that everyone knows you haven't a clue about environmentalism if you smell like them. Anyway. try a clothes line. I am on a campaign. If you need help, let me know. I will help you solve problems. I have always had a clothesline, Colorado, Poughkeepsie, Sausalito, Williams Lake.... Celebrate Spring with a new clothes line.
This photo is Aquaria in one of my gardens from the past. Carol took the photo.
