Kamál (Perfection), 1 Masá’il (Questions), 168 BE – Monday, December 12, 2011 about 10:45 AM Pacific Time
My first reason is the difficulty I have hanging sheets on the line outside. Rain is the second reason I need an electric clothes dryer. I realized yesterday, when I hung four sheets on the line how difficult it was becoming. I am not sure what causes this problem. I could be issues with my rotator cuff or arthritis, but whichever it is it makes hanging clothes, especially sheets hard.
In order to hang a sheet on the line, I have to stretch my arms over my head to reach the clothesline. I do not know how my Grandmother did it, but she hung clothes on an outside line all the time. Grandma’s clothesline like mine was taller then her, yet she hung sheets neatly on the line. I cannot manage hanging them that way, my sheets always seem to hang lop sided on the clothesline. My sheets look pathetic hanging lopsided on the cloths line and if I am not careful, they drag on the ground when I turn the line.
Grandma did not have to worry about sheets dragging on the ground because her clothesline did not turn. My clothesline turns; I like this feature because I can stand in one place and turn the line instead of dragging a basket full of clothes across the yard.
Today is cloudy and the meteorologist predicted rain, so I cannot hang any of the clothes on the line. Fortunately, I have a drying rack so I can wash and hang the clothes on the rack.
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Monday, December 12, 2011
Sunday, June 07, 2009
I almost feel like I’m back in Oklahoma when hang sheets on the line
Jamál (Beauty), 3 Nur (Light), 166 BE – Sunday, June 7, 2009 about 9:38 AM Pacific Time
I feel like I'm back in Oklahoma. The mornings are crisp, almost cold, there are clouds in the sky about dawn. The birds are singing and the neighbors dogs are barking. Morning are pleasant, the temperature in the feels chilly on my arms.
This morning I went into the back yard to put up the cloths line. I have one of those hexogan lines that I can fold up at night. I fold it up everynight and in the morning, on the days we do laundry, I unfold. Now that the electric dryer is broken, we do only one or two loads of laundry a day.
When the electric dryer worked, it seemed that we were doing more laundry. However, I think we were using the dryer a lot, but not the washer. Now that I have an outdoor dryer, the cloths are hung on the line and not dryed two or three times in the dryer. I suspect that is why the dryer went out because everything was getting dryed more then once. With a cloths line there is not putting the cloths through the drying process more then once.
The only disadvantage I have found using a cloths line is wrinkles. We have to iron the cloths now. The sheets don't get ironed, my grandmother ironed her sheets. I don't care if the sheets are wrinkled when I put them on the bed, I'm not ironing sheets. I know I said in an earlier post that I was looking forward to ironing sheets, well it's something I'm going to have to look forward to because I'm not going to iron sheets.
If I get new sheets, I might consider ironing them, the the ones I have now are old and ironing thme isn't going to make them look like new. I guess I should be considering getting new sheets, but that's going to have to wait for a couple of months. The sheets I have now are all right, they don't have any holes in them. If I pull them tight enough when I put them on the bed I can hardly see any wrinkles.
I feel like I'm back in Oklahoma. The mornings are crisp, almost cold, there are clouds in the sky about dawn. The birds are singing and the neighbors dogs are barking. Morning are pleasant, the temperature in the feels chilly on my arms.
This morning I went into the back yard to put up the cloths line. I have one of those hexogan lines that I can fold up at night. I fold it up everynight and in the morning, on the days we do laundry, I unfold. Now that the electric dryer is broken, we do only one or two loads of laundry a day.
When the electric dryer worked, it seemed that we were doing more laundry. However, I think we were using the dryer a lot, but not the washer. Now that I have an outdoor dryer, the cloths are hung on the line and not dryed two or three times in the dryer. I suspect that is why the dryer went out because everything was getting dryed more then once. With a cloths line there is not putting the cloths through the drying process more then once.
The only disadvantage I have found using a cloths line is wrinkles. We have to iron the cloths now. The sheets don't get ironed, my grandmother ironed her sheets. I don't care if the sheets are wrinkled when I put them on the bed, I'm not ironing sheets. I know I said in an earlier post that I was looking forward to ironing sheets, well it's something I'm going to have to look forward to because I'm not going to iron sheets.
If I get new sheets, I might consider ironing them, the the ones I have now are old and ironing thme isn't going to make them look like new. I guess I should be considering getting new sheets, but that's going to have to wait for a couple of months. The sheets I have now are all right, they don't have any holes in them. If I pull them tight enough when I put them on the bed I can hardly see any wrinkles.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
I bought one item on my dream list
Istijlál (Majesty), 17 Jamál (Beauty), 166 BE – Thursday, May 14, 2009 about 9:31 AM Pacific Time
I bought one item on my dream list. I bought a new cloths dryer. True, it's an outdoor cloths dryer, but it's a cloths dryer and I don't have to lug wet cloths to the car and drive them to a laundromat to dry them. I can go into my backyard and hang them on my outdoor cloths dryer. The best thing is that it's a solar cloths dryer.
All right, my outdoor solar cloths dryer is a cloths line. It's one of the hexagon type that turns so that you don't have to walk around it when hanging cloths on the like. When I bought it, the outdoor cloths dryer came with 24 cloths pins, with the pins I already had that will be enough for a couple of days. I'm eventually going to have to buy more cloths pins, but I'll deal with that next week. In the mean time, I'm going to enjoy hanging my cloths out on the line.
I can remember my grandmother hanging cloths out to dry. She did laundry every Friday or Saturday. The day she did laundry depended on whether it rained or the zinc smelter had smoke coming out of their chimneys. If there were smoke, she didn't do laundry because the smell of the smoke got into the cloths.
I'm probably going to have a bit of a problem this winter when I do laundry. Some of the neighbors have wood burning fireplaces they use in wintertime. If I hang my cloths out when the neighbors are using their fireplaces, then the smell of smoke with get into my cloths while they are drying.
I bought one item on my dream list. I bought a new cloths dryer. True, it's an outdoor cloths dryer, but it's a cloths dryer and I don't have to lug wet cloths to the car and drive them to a laundromat to dry them. I can go into my backyard and hang them on my outdoor cloths dryer. The best thing is that it's a solar cloths dryer.
All right, my outdoor solar cloths dryer is a cloths line. It's one of the hexagon type that turns so that you don't have to walk around it when hanging cloths on the like. When I bought it, the outdoor cloths dryer came with 24 cloths pins, with the pins I already had that will be enough for a couple of days. I'm eventually going to have to buy more cloths pins, but I'll deal with that next week. In the mean time, I'm going to enjoy hanging my cloths out on the line.
I can remember my grandmother hanging cloths out to dry. She did laundry every Friday or Saturday. The day she did laundry depended on whether it rained or the zinc smelter had smoke coming out of their chimneys. If there were smoke, she didn't do laundry because the smell of the smoke got into the cloths.
I'm probably going to have a bit of a problem this winter when I do laundry. Some of the neighbors have wood burning fireplaces they use in wintertime. If I hang my cloths out when the neighbors are using their fireplaces, then the smell of smoke with get into my cloths while they are drying.
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