Ohmystinkinheck

It has been 3 1/2 years since I’ve had a clothesline available - and today, with 14 loads of laundry to catch up on from last week (No, the ‘laundry fairy’ did not visit while I was holed-up in the hospital or in bed.), I’m putting all available reserves to work - including my new line, these new clothespins and Mr. Sun himself.

Yep, I figure if he’s gonna beat down on my head to the tune of 100+ degrees, he may as well be useful.

This heat? BLECH. Last night at around 11:30 pm, right before Mr. OMSH crawled into bed, he informed me it was 86 degrees. EIGHTY-SIX only a half-hour before midnight.

Oh yeah, it’s gonna be a hot summer.

16 Responses to “Putting this wretched heat to work.”

1. Linda

   I envy your clothes line. When I was growing up we had a clothes line that stretched across the lower length of our yard and we used it year round. I can remember the hot humid heat of the summer and the bone chilling cold of winter. I remember hanging clothes on the line after dark in the winter and having them freeze before we could get them hung completely, especially bed sheets. I remember having to rush home from school the next day and get the clothes off the line before the sun started going down so they wouldn’t get damp. I live inside the city limits now and clothes lines aren’t an option … but I do miss the smell of clothes dried in the sunshine and oh how I loved drying off with a bath towel that had been hanging in the hot summer sun all day.

2. bethany actually

   I should TOTALLY have Troy string me up a clothesline somewhere. Problem is, we don’t have a backyard and I don’t think our neighbors would look kindly on a clothesline in the front yard. ;-) Hmm, we do have some side yard space though. I will think of something.

   Sorry about the yucky heat, my dear. That silly humidity doesn’t make it any better. Know what I think you need? I think you need a few days at the beach where there are nice, cooling breezes… ;-)

3. Dad

   OK, MaMa OMSH! Let’s see, homegrown blueberries under a mesh screen, tomatoes, lemon/lime trees, chickens w/eggs and talk of a winter garden … NOW sun dried clothes that will fold like cardboard! You are becoming your grandmother right before my eyes.

   Actually, I thought it might be fun to have a clothes line hanging out of our 28th floor apartment in Chicago. Plenty of wind and sun to dry them if we used vise grips to clamp the clothes in place. Your Mother said “No!” And here I was trying to save her a few trips to the 8th floor laundry room. Yep, I’m the proper helper.

   Dad

4. JackieW.

   Dear OMSH’s dad.

   If one dries the load 5 minutes in the dryer THEN hangs them outside the stiff as a board business doesn’t happen.

   In Kansas add wind to that sun & stuff dries ASAP ! IF it is still there when you return to bring it in.

5. Angela Tippets

   Not allowed to have clotheslines in our neighborhood. BUMMER! I really like hanging my clothes out too. Let’s my neighbors know I’ve been busy! I seriously live in a “Wisteria Lane” type neighborhood. Great house, but it drive me C.R.A.Z.Y.!!

6. jen

   HOA won’t let me have a clothesline…and I’m sure the construction workers behind the house assembling the new school’s playground equipment would just LOVE to see my granny pants hanging there, so it’s probably for the best. ;) Instead, I’m listening to the dryer and a/c argue with each other. Neither one is winning and neither one will back down. LOL!

7. OMSH

   Dad (a.k.a. Poppa Ken) - my clothes don’t fold like cardboard; don’t you wish you knew the trick, eh? Secrets of needing to cloth diaper without exfoliating my kids’ tushes.

   JackieW. - Yep, that and double hanging for a slower dry. :)

   Angela Tippets - No fenced back yard? I wouldn’t do it out front, but our backyard is fenced.

   jen - Granny pants rock!

8. SparklieSunShine

   I believe if there were a fairies the laundry fairy would be my favorite. It would be like Christmas every day! When my other half does the laundry I am more happy with that then a gift.

9. cc

   Out here it is so hot and dry that by the time you get the last item hung, the first is already dry.

10. Janera

    Oh, yes, may-am. A hot one for sure.

    I love a clothes line! Especially for sheets. And cloth diapers back in the day.

    Hallelujiah, those days are over. So, yes. Sheets.

11. robin-bird

    i don’t know why i thought there were going to be blackboards in this post…?……on the subject of clotheslines i could wax poetic for hours. i think clothes hanging on a line make some of the best photographic opportunities imaginable. i have a secret desire to dedicate an entire photo project taking just pictures of clothes lines…but alas not many people i see use them. yours is awesome with those red and purple stripes with roses making the backdrop look like clothesline heaven. and the heat..yes i can see why 86 at bedtime is a problem. very sticky skin when you go to bed and when you wake up. BLECH!
    robin-bird

12. Tina

    Ok, so I used a clothesline exclusively last summer. We bought a new house and something happened to our dryer in the transition. I thought I’d do it the old-fashioned way and save a few on utilities. Then somewhere around August as my clothes were continually blowing off the line, no matter how many clothes pins I used, I decided that there are some conveniences a working mom with 4 kids just needs to have. However, this summer, I am missing the smell of sheets dried on the line.

13. Mrs. Wilson

    Wow. That is HOT!

14. Shannon

    I could do the line drying outside due to my allergies but I do it inside. Great way to use your natural resources! We get up to about 94 and we stop but we got the humidity and that is just awful! Last night at 10pm it was 70. Summer has been gentle for us this year! Sorry you are getting the brunt of it.

15. Tami Sickels

    Love the pictures. You always have great posts. That is why I gave you an award over at my blog. Stop by when you have time and check it out.

16. Stefani

    Summer. Bluh.

    I’m so digging your clothesline though. It’s way up there on my “need” list.