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  • From: VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Random thoughts about the day
  • Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:37:23 -0800 (PST)

-- On Mon, 1/12/09, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone here had any thoughts or
> suggestions of
> design for wooden, indoor, clothes drying racks.

We had a retractable close line to hang on one wall, pull the cord out and
hook on other wall until done using. depends on where you put it in what
room, whether it was in the way.

My mother hung clothes outside all winter unless it was actually raining,
then she hung them in my bedroom, a larger large room in the back of the
house. Either in or outdoors clothes would often "freeze dry" you could
pick up a towel by one corner and it would be stiff as cardboard until you
folded it up.

I've wondered about a line on pulleys, one end in the laundry room and the
other outside. It would enter the house through a very narrow opening that
could be shut once the clothes were outside on the line. You could stand
inside to pin the clothes on the line and roll them outside until all is hung
up, then close the shutter to the opening. Taking the clothes off the line
would be the reverse of that.
Van Dell




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