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Tuesday, July 7. 2009

This photo was on the morning of the 4th, before I got the rest of my hosed-down camo life jackets and my vast assortment of hosed-clean blaze-orange shooting stuff, some waxed and some not, hanging up on this thing to be dried and refreshed in the sunshine.

That basement flood was rough on my gear (much of which was on or near the floor), and it all needed a serious, high-powered hosing-down -not a washing machine. It got most of the mold and dirt out, but everything needed a good long sunshine treatment.

Maybe I need a real outdoor clothes line, like my Mom has. She hates to sleep on sheets that have not hung in the New England sun, summer or winter. That old Yankee gal believes that sun on your sheets gives you good dreams, and the thick scent of the Berkshire wild thyme helps.

Posted by Bird Dog in Hunting, Fishing, Dogs, Guns, etc., Our Essays at 05:33 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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Ah . . . down South, what you have there IS a clothesline

#1 BlackDog on 2009-07-07 08:47 (Reply)

Bird Dog ... We used to have a collapsible "clothes tree" for outdoor clothes drying. It was four sided, with multiple lines on each side, and could accommodate quite a lot of clothes on each side. When everything was dry, it was lifted out of its steel socket in the lawn and stored easily in the garage. That way, careless little kids playing in the twilight wouldn't find themselves garroted by an invisible clothesline.

But ... I know. It's none of my business.

Marianne

#2 Marianne Matthews on 2009-07-07 09:33 (Reply)

Mmmm fresh sun dried sheets--they are a delight! In the winter when it is too wet to dry I iron them--trying to get the same memory (it helps a little). On sunny days in the winter when the temperature is well below freezing--I bring em in from the clothesline--stiff as a board! They cannot put the smell of sunshine into a candle, a spray bottle, or anything else--but the memory!

#3 apple pie on 2009-07-07 10:44 (Reply)

So I must be off to the Berkshires for a wild thyme

#4 Chaucer on 2009-07-07 11:42 (Reply)

I bought my wife a pair of Filson Chaps. It makes working with her afield a much more pleasant task... ;-)

#5 Buzz on 2009-07-07 14:41 (Reply)

At age 72 I have never been without a clothesline for sheets, airing blankets and quilts, and the finish drying of jeans and other heavy items. If you hang linens straight they are better than ironed and my linen closet smells so good. Whoops, forgot, back in the 60's while living in student housing as my husband pursued his Phd I had no clothesline.

#6 Ruth H on 2009-07-07 18:48 (Reply)

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Filson in the air