24
Oct

Feelin’ Kinda Redneck

   Posted by: MotherHen   in Homemaking, Laundry

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Do y’all read Down to Earth?  She is such an interesting lady. She had a wonderful post about laundry.  And since laundry is my life, (well, it feels that way on most days) I was immediately drawn to it and had to check out the links she included.  I was so inspired to get back into the groove of hanging my laundry out on the line.

I have really let that slide.  Been strugglin’ along with my pokey electric dryer for weeks now.  Using the recent rains and my current sinus infection as reasons excuses for my laundry laziness.

But today was a good day to start hangin’ out again, since I am about 3 days behind on the laundry routine. (Let’s blame my sinus infection, oh, and the pokey electric dryer.)  So this morning I washed a big load of Cowboy clothes and took ‘em out back only to find that we must have had a bit of rain during the night and I had some muddy ground to contend with.

We’ve had a drought for about 793 years and have recently had a bunch of rain.  Translated into Lawn Language and that means that I have had bare dirt for a back yard but now have big patches of weeds, but only here and there.  So, I could have just turned around and put all that wet laundry into the pokey dryer OR stop being a baby and find a solution.

I turned around and right there on my patio were two empty charcoal briquette bags.  Big ones!  And they were already flattened out!  I just picked ‘em up and carried them over to my clothes line area, being very careful to walk only on the weeds, and plunked those big paper bags down on the mud right where I needed to stand to hang all that Cowboy laundry out.

Let me tell you!  It’s workin’ like a charm  AND there’s the added benefit of being reminded of all those Jeff Foxworthy jokes while I hang my laundry, ‘cuz really?  It looks like a redneck lives here!

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More interesting reading about hanging out your laundry.  What?  It is too interesting!

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7 comments so far

Anita Chamblee
 1 

Down to Earth is in my blog list. : ) My excuse for not hanging the laundry out is this…..dh took down my lines when he cut some trees down (they had grown over my clothesline) and hasn’t put them back up yet. It’s been months!! He says he needs a blow torch to do it right. My clothesline posts came from my mamaw’s house. I have no idea how old they are but they are thick metal and I wanted big eye screw things to tie the line to….. Oh, well.. Maybe by spring!

October 24th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
petersonclan
 2 

You feel redneck… so do I! I have had a broken wash machine on my porch for a couple months!!!

October 24th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
MotherHen
 3 

Well, since he is content to pay the bill to run the dryer then you get a pass, huh? I totally covet your T-poles. Maybe once we move I can get some like that. They last forever. I remember helping my granny hang out laundry on her lines (like yours) and she used to put my uncles jeans in “stretcher” frames so they wouldn’t wrinkle. Man, that was a couple hundred years ago.

October 24th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
MotherHen
 4 

Kim says it’s a badge of wealth (in rural areas) to have broken appliances outside your home. Shows you got somethin’ better in th’ house! ;)

October 24th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
petersonclan
 5 

Ahh.. so we’re wealthy! :) I have to let Eric know he can stop working so hard. ;)

October 24th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Teresa
 6 

My excuse is my landlord nor the silly little HOA will allow us to have a clothes line. I would love to have one, my neighbors already think I am a little backwards since I am the only one who stays home with the kids AND we homeschool- and we are mostly home! That and I am always asking if they have changed the rules about having chickens and goats:). Enjoy your clothes lines especially since its not hundreds of degrees outside now.
BTW- the best thing I have found for sinus infections (besides the neti pot) is colliadal silver (I am sure i just spelled that wrong). but it works wonders and no horrid antibiotic side effects.

October 24th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Cyndi Lewis
 7 

Red necks unite!

October 25th, 2009 at 6:42 am