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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

Did you dry outside in the winter?  
As a kid my room was a large room in the back of the
house, large enough that the winter close line was
hung in there.  Because there was no heat sometimes
the clothes would "freeze dry".  Kind of weird to lift
a towel by the bottom edge it stand up almost as if it
were cardboard.  Though I've known a couple of
bachelors who claimed they didn't wash theirs until
they got reached that condition.

--- Gloria Morris <gloriamorris59 AT gmail.com> wrote:

> I love wind and sun dried clothes and linens. There
> is nothing so
> luxuriously absorbent and back-scratchingly
> satisfying as towels off
> the line. Sheets are so nice and crisp, too. At my
> previous homestead,
> I had a large set of clotheslines, and I used it
> much of the year,
> except when it was raining. In rainy weather, I had
> it set up to hang
> dry much of the laundry indoors rather than use a
> dryer. The indoor
> system did not have the benefits of that outdoor,
> dried-in-the-sun
> smell, though. Line drying saves a lot of energy,
> and the feel and
> smell of laundry coming off the line simply cannot
> be beat. My next
> home will have another clothesline, for sure!
> 
> Washing machines certainly use energy. I do some
> laundry by hand, but
> the vast majority goes through a machine. In winter,
> central Illinois
> gets a lot of wind energy, and in the summer we have
> abundant solar
> energy. I subscribed to Home Power magazine for a
> while, and I looked
> very hard into setting up a hybrid solar and wind
> system with battery
> back-up. I also looked into government subsidies for
> such systems,
> but, at least at that time, and for my budget, I
> couldn't quite swing
> it. Unless you set up for DC power, you've got to
> get an inverter at a
> minimum. If you like electronics, the higher priced
> inverters supply
> fussy electronics with the power they want.
> 
> Gloria
> 
> On 11/19/06, Marie McHarry <mmcharry AT gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On 11/19/06, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Remind me again where you are, Marie..
> > > My first thought on using the wind was a
> clothesline..lol
> > >
> > I love wind-dried clothes and I really do need to
> put up a clothes
> > line. For whatever reason, my late, great spouse
> hated clothes lines
> > and took ours out. I didn't complain at the time
> since he was doing
> > much of the laundry.
> >
> > I live in central Illinois on top of one of the
> higher spots in the
> > country and we almost always have a breeze and
> often a stiff wind.
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