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Tag: clothes
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We have two kinds of wasps that annoy us in spring and summer. One is the German wasp, with a nicely rounded black and yellow striped body, which builds nests in the ground. The other is known as the paper wasp, and is smaller, and makes those lovely honeycomb-shaped nests on the branches of trees or on the weatherboards of the house. Both varieties sting, so we exterminate them and their nests. There is also what we call a red stinger, which is a less frequent visitor and we have not found any... Read More
There was an art to hanging clothes on the line that Father had so carefully installed and tightened to Mother's specifications. Linens went on the outer lines; shirts, blouses, pants, skirts, dresses and aprons on the ends of the lines with the heaviest items on the very ends so they did not stretch the line and cause it to sag. In the middle of the center lines, where they would not be glimpsed by the neighbors or passers by, went the more intimate articles of clothing. You knew the neighbors... Read More
I received this from a friend recently and could certainly relate back to the 1940's to 1960's. I know there are many that still do this, including my daughter. Today as the summer winds presented themselves as more than a gentle breeze I allowed the wafts to blow me back to an earlier time. Recently I had cause to visit a local store and noticed automatic washers and dryers that looked like something from outer space. I thought; my word how things have changed. The hot gust of winds to... Read More
I was reading a topic written in the forum in May, about clothes lines, and it surprised me that some American homes don't have clothes lines. Where I live, the neighbours on either side of me don't have a dryer. I have both, so I only need to hang the clothes out in summer. When I was a child there were no machines either for washing or drying. We only had clothes lines. At first there was no rotary line, only a long wire with a wooden prop in the middle to hoist it up.This brings to mind a wic... Read More
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