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["Jeanne Driese" <jeanne13 AT earthlink.net>]

Who on this list would happily wash clothes by hand?

Well back in the olden days when I was married and there were three kids I 
did wash by hand.  We had 5 acres in North Wisconsin and vacationed there a 
total of five weeks a year.  We used two washtubs and found an attatachable 
hand wringer and did all our laundry.  Since I live alone now I think it  
would be possible to do it for myself.  I have the expertise, just would have 
to find another wringer!  Happily.......??????????
Jeanne
tnhillwoman
North East TN zone 6
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gene GeRue 
  To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org 
  Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 10:43 AM
  Subject: Re: [Homestead] Simplified life ?



  On Sep 26, 2008, at 9:21 AM, <eureka AT hctc.net> <eureka AT hctc.net> wrote:

  > We were talking last night about life without
  > electricity, and both decided we could make do, if we had
  > to, except for one thing: hauling water up from our
  > pioneer well would do us in.

  My brother, Don and I recently visited the log cabin built for Starker  
  Leopold, son of Aldo Leopold, author of A Sand County Almanac and  
  considered by many the father of natural resources conservation. The  
  cabin is in Caney Mountain Refuge, about six miles from Heartwood. The  
  cabin site is magnificent, atop huge rock formations and looking out  
  over heavy woods and creek bottom. Starker was hired to be the first  
  manager of the refuge, which is nearly eight thousand acres and where  
  most notably the Missouri deer and turkey population was built up from  
  very few animals in the forties.

  We discovered the negative of living in such an inspiring site. A  
  spring box was poured of concrete to collect water from a hillside  
  seepage. To get to the spring box there is a long set of stone steps  
  down from the cabin. Carrying water up for drinking and cooking would  
  mean carrying buckets up those seventy or eighty steep steps, an  
  elevation I would guesstimate about seventy feet.

  My first impression was that this glorious place would be a total  
  delight in which to live. Then the daily reality sunk in.

  Nostalgia is nice. Electricity is better.

  Who on this list would happily wash clothes by hand?

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