From an email to my relatives

From an email to my relatives

This Saturday morning I picked up (bought) 60 pounds of quick Crete for my fancy house clothes line to better anchor it. It had tilted under load earlier.

My earlier installation had worked out poorly, like it needed a better anchor to keep it upright. So hence I got some quick Crete (which is basically easy to use concrete).

One traditional way of using clothes lines is just of hang a line between tree trunks, and let the clothes dry. The Hemlocks also has such a setup on standby, but it is not used right now. All American houses had them at one time.

I still use Plan B, which is an electric dryer; and also let the big house rugs suffer as a result.

Now the weather influences all this, too.  Clothes can’t dry when it is raining, for example. And the cold season usually takes more time for clothes to dry on an outside “line”.

Being a survival nutcase of sorts, I figure to use solar energy (it use to be called a clothes line) to dry and even disinfect my clothes and bedding.

 

PS  Here’s a small world story.

Ages ago I had a clothes bag that disappeared at the airport in Copenhagen, Denmark.

So I was missing my underclothes, too, like they were in the bag.

So as part of my recovery, I bought some new stuff in Sweden which is where we were headed. One purchase was some underwear with elephants on them. At the time there was no “white” and “basic’ underwear for men.

Later, and then living in the Philippines, this “elephant’ underwear was stolen by one of the washers, and then even later I spied it hanging out to dry on a clothes line.

So I complained, and got my underwear back; and the thief was beaten severely as a punishment (or so I was told).