Pat Shingleton for July 26, 2008
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A summertime task during our younger days was “stretching the clothesline.” The line was secured at the garage, the flagpole, the porch, and stretched back to the garage.
Here is where my mom “hung-out-the-clothes” — kept off the ground with a “clothes-prop.”
A shower emptied the house whereby kids, a grandfather and a few neighborhood buddies scrambled to retrieve the clothes before they were rinsed again by Mother Nature.
In the latest green initiative, ABC News reports that people are opting to hang their laundry on clotheslines instead of using energy-sucking dryers.
Fastcast: July-like.
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