tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340286.post7683778569475660431..comments2024-03-13T06:32:57.571-04:00Comments on . . . in the pantry: The Right to DryCatherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11361090241108323002noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340286.post-66038619327284000242017-01-04T23:12:52.890-05:002017-01-04T23:12:52.890-05:00Impressive snaps within your post sharing. Get to ...Impressive snaps within your post sharing. Get to know the clothes dryer, please visit <a href="http://www.homeutility.in/" rel="nofollow">Buy Wardrobe Online</a> | <a href="http://www.homeutility.in/" rel="nofollow">Buy Celebrations Online</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15810444797773290310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340286.post-21795132898518335642014-03-13T16:48:40.512-04:002014-03-13T16:48:40.512-04:00Love the clothesline. I bought a Hills Hoist and ...Love the clothesline. I bought a Hills Hoist and I live in the US.<br /><br />I remember Monday being wash day and Tuesday was when the ironing was done.<br /><br />My grandmothers clotheslines were the cotton rope strung from house corner to garage corner to pole and then this way and that (if that makes sense). Put up and taken down every Monday!Kennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340286.post-4076399731174244542009-09-12T11:19:01.521-04:002009-09-12T11:19:01.521-04:00I cannot believe that stuck up suburbanites want t...I cannot believe that stuck up suburbanites want to BAN clotheslines. Well, yes I can. These are people that use chemicals on their lawns, take lavish wash-the-towels everyday kind of vacations and drive gas sucking SUV's. I am only 37 and have dried my clothes outside for years. When I was growing up, mom didn't have a clothes line because we didn't have the yard for one, but she did lay a broom handle across the backs of 2 chairs and hang shirts on hangers there to air dry. We didn't dry our clothes all the way in the dryer either. Usually just enough to get the lint off and some of the wrinkles out. After that they went on the hanger and were either "broomsticked" or "shower pole'd." I love hanging my laundry outside. In the winter when it is too cold to dry, we put folding drying racks in front of the wood stove. The clothes dry fast and the moisture from that keeps the humidity up in the house. Two birds with one stone.Phoenix Hollow Farmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08555364511445641898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340286.post-60226559480561077522009-07-22T09:03:22.108-04:002009-07-22T09:03:22.108-04:00I recieved your book Monday. Very nice, I just lo...I recieved your book Monday. Very nice, I just love all that great woodwork in the pictures of those old pantrys. It will take an honored place amoungst my cookbooks.Queen Grandmothernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340286.post-11005502884948642932009-07-18T11:30:20.361-04:002009-07-18T11:30:20.361-04:00What lovely clotheslines, I am always moved by th...What lovely clotheslines, I am always moved by the sight of clothes out on the line. When i was a kid, we had a big clothesline in back of our house, under a row of old elm trees. It was always such a wonderful vision, and I am lucky enough to have one of my father's paintings of that clothesline. We had a big laundry room in that house, complete with huge deep sinks. I remember learning to iron with my mother in that room.<br /><br />I don't have a clothesline any more, but I am going to try to get one going again. I am going to ask my son to help me put one up..<br /><br />I got a copy of your pantry book, it is lovely.<br /><br />Karinelectricduncehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11791820876983263143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340286.post-86688025923169167422009-07-18T09:26:12.110-04:002009-07-18T09:26:12.110-04:00I enjoyed this article very much. I am a dedicate...I enjoyed this article very much. I am a dedicated clothes line user. There is such an art to hanging clothes, just so-so, so the hems of t-shirts aren't all stretched out, and everything is so neat and crisp. Oh, and I LOVE towels dried on the line! LOL! Thank you for your musings.Queen Grandmothernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340286.post-24119971376055454242009-07-18T09:22:10.482-04:002009-07-18T09:22:10.482-04:00My mother used both a dryer and clothesline. I rem...My mother used both a dryer and clothesline. I remember going to get the clothes off the line and having to shake earwigs out of the them before I brought them into the house. <br /><br />At various places I have lived I've used a clothesline. Where I live now every time I look out the upstairs window into the neighbors backyard (They have a clothesline.), I think, I've got to get a clothesline. Enjoyed your post and blog.<br /><br />Desiree BellAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02472015809869009359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340286.post-74956772250641789032009-07-16T08:09:47.999-04:002009-07-16T08:09:47.999-04:00Catherine,
The clotheslines will turn either way....Catherine,<br /><br />The clotheslines will turn either way. My mother says she wants a series of long lines but experience has shown me that a 'Hills Hoist' is just wonderful.<br /><br />SuzanSuzannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340286.post-933892262569681282009-07-13T12:43:55.493-04:002009-07-13T12:43:55.493-04:00Suzan,
Glad to hear from you "down under&qu...Suzan, <br /><br />Glad to hear from you "down under" (hey, does your clotheslines spin counter-clockwise? I am fascinated by that phenomenon).<br /><br />I have seen many of those tented umbrella style rotating clotheslines here in the Mennonite community. Very practical. <br /><br />I have yet to try freeze dried clothes, however.<br /><br />Best, CatherineCatherinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11361090241108323002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340286.post-85499607743028715672009-07-13T12:41:58.324-04:002009-07-13T12:41:58.324-04:00Peaches, love what you said about clotheslines and...Peaches, love what you said about clotheslines and I hope you will commission your brother to repair yours...hey, maybe bake him a few PIES!!?? And with the sun finally out up there, it should help, too. <br /><br />I think those anti-clothesline folks probably have too much of their own dirty laundry and have so many other issues, to boot.<br /><br />And think of the many laundry cliches (I think!):<br /><br />"Hang tight"<br />"take down a peg or two"<br />"give it a new 'spin'"<br /><br />xoCatherineCatherinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11361090241108323002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340286.post-10101614981695342052009-07-13T07:18:50.174-04:002009-07-13T07:18:50.174-04:00In Australia we have rotating clothes lines and th...In Australia we have rotating clothes lines and they are great. We also have under cover lines for the very hot days when you get burnt hanging out the wash. I love the smell of freshly line dried clothes. In summer it was the greatest fun to run through the wet wash on the hot days. Being tangled in a wet sheet seemed to be a weekly thing.<br /><br />I just cannot imagine a community which polices line drying....It is so alien to me. The clothes drier is used but not often. I would hate to be forced to dry everything that way.Suzannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340286.post-88087127877686519562009-07-13T06:22:00.513-04:002009-07-13T06:22:00.513-04:00Catherine, I love this post! I've been followi...Catherine, I love this post! I've been following the clothes line controversy with amazement for the last few years. I think the people who want to ban clotheslines are insane. Clearly, they have never used one. <br /><br />The worst fallout of December's ice storm in this household is that a tree fell on our clothesline and we now have only three lines instead of five. I'm hoping my brother, who is arriving today, will be able to repair it. (He built it as a housewarming gift to me 10 years ago.)<br /><br />As far as I'm concerned it saves energy, is a lovely meditative exercise, brightens and freshens clothing and linens like nobody's business and provides a beautiful scene outside the kitchen window. It's as satisfying as looking at a pantry shelf filled with home canned peaches! <br /><br />It's a sad commentary on today's society that it will take Martha or Oprah to make it chic and thereby acceptable. But if that's the only way to do it then I say go for it. <br /><br />HANG IT ALL! (How's that for a slogan?)<br /><br />xoxo<br />Peachesa Cupcake near you!https://www.blogger.com/profile/12313969478379243399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340286.post-20131867507273714962009-07-13T00:20:31.654-04:002009-07-13T00:20:31.654-04:00Next time I will! And I love your laundry room.Next time I will! And I love your laundry room.Catherinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11361090241108323002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340286.post-24994705990934161182009-07-12T18:29:49.651-04:002009-07-12T18:29:49.651-04:00I'm surprised that you didn't snap and pub...I'm surprised that you didn't snap and publish a photo of my porch clothesline...LOL!!! I would've given you permission, although a line full of t-shirts is not quite as romantic as the dresses & sheets.(wink)<br /><br />The laundry room is closer to my heart than a pantry. In fact, when I designed the house, I started with the laundry room and built the house around it! My "pantry" is actually the old bookshelf I have sitting in the laundry room.<br /><br />Great post. I love it.<br />love, teresaTeresahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05497353883350419184noreply@blogger.com