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I love my new laundry equipment,i have a wringer washer on the back deck under the gazebo,with the washboard and basin,and i hang the clothes to dry on the rails of the gazebo.Works great,i just hope a strong wind doesn't blow my gazebo over.lol.

#1: Lilly Johns (LJohns315) on Aug 28, 2011

Nice image.

thx Lilly.

You have your own laundry gazebo!!! How fancy. We just use the front porch. lol

Our front porch is too small,too bad cause the front gets full sun.The gazebo works good though.:)

I want one!!! What a great idea. Good puzzle Aldege, very enjoyable :)

Thx Marie-Louise,it's funny,modern technology is great but when something like this happens and one is forced to deal with life the way our parents and grandparents had to,you gain a new perspective of what life was like for them.I've been hanging clothes out on the gazebo for a week now and to be honest with you,i've enjoyed it somewhat,but winter is coming,i sure hope they fix my machines by then.lol.:)Marz i cannot find your old puzzles,i've tried everything,can you help me?

Hi Aldege, just go to "Find Puzzles" and type in marz in the author window, should come up with my puzzles, if not, then I dont know.

Oh and I went and had a peek at your dragon puzzle Puff, it is gorgeous! What a pixel artist you are, well done!

i hang some of my clothes out on the canopy frame over my patio. makes the clothes smell nice

Hi Aldege, I forgot to add with last comment that I have a new account with webpbn because I didnt' go on here for such a long time that I forgot my password, I think I had it remebered by my computer but I have since changed computers. I tried a few different passwords but it wouldn't let me in. So new account it was and because marz was already taken as a user name I just added my year of birth, 71, and here I am, back again :) So previous puzzles are just under the user name marz.

Tom,that is one of the benefits,they smell fresh,i like that.:)

Marz i tried that and it shows none found,however i just searched all puzzles until i saw your name and found them.You are incredible.I am slowly going thru them,from your evil teddy to where i am now which is the african animal series,i can't get over the fabulous images.You even did a great VW at stoplights.I will thoroughly enjoy looking at them all,thx marz.

Aldege, it's really a shame that you are only looking at them and not solving them, because her puzzles are pure joy to solve. You always get that "Aha!" experience that makes it so fun.

I enjoyed solving this puzzle, by the way. :-)

Eco-friendly dryers are great... and cheap! And they make fun solving puzzles too! ;)

Thx Teresa,i will try solving some of marz's puzzles just for you.lol, but i'm telling you now i'm going to wear out my L key.:)

Thx Tripper.

I like hanging the clothes out... especially the sheets. the sun and breezes add a quality that is never there when things are machine dried.

Aldege, my dad grew up in kansas and he used to tell me about bringing in the clothes in winter. stiff as a board! hope you get that gear up and running before you can use your jeans for skis.

when we're on the hook, I have a portable wringer and an ice chest for laundry. then I hang them on the lifelines. very decorative. :-)

Skis,that's funny Annalivia.When i was a kid my mom hung laundry outside in the winter and it froze.My brothers and i would make an ice rink in the backyard and play hockey.Someone would invariably take a stray slap shot and the puck would tear right thru a shirt or a bed sheet that was hanging on the line putting a hole thru it.:)

Aldege, when you're not doing the washing, you can play that ol' washboard in a zydeco band!

and did she make you kids mend the sheets? how many of each in the 18?

Joel,zydeco music,now that's happening stuff,i love it.Good to have on when cleaning the house.

No Annalivia,once she cooled down,she gave us the sheets,then helped us make hockey nets with wood frames and use the sheets as the netting.My mom was cool,she had a temper,but she was cool too. I don't know the exact mix cause i was the youngest and apparently some died at birth before me and 2 after me,also my brother Richard died at age 5 from rheumatic fever and my brother Ernie died in a car accident at 17. Of the remaining gang i grew up with 5 sisters and 5 brothers.It was fun.

wow, what a history you have! how neat of your mom to help you make hockey nets with the sheets. you sure you didn't aim a bit with those pucks? :-)

We were all good hockey players,4 of my brothers played semi-pro hockey as did I,so i imagine there was some aiming going on.lol.:)

I would like to have space to air dry the laundry, haven't done it since being at my sister's house in England! Nice puzzle!

Wonderful puzzle, Aldege!

Thx Jota,it must take a week to dry clothes outside in England,do they ever see the sun and if they do doesn't it rain every day.I'm just joking,when i watched Coronation Street it was always sunny there.lol.Again just joking.

Thx Maggie,glad you enjoyed it.

You only do the laundry when it's not rainy I guess, LOL.

they wash their clothes?

Tom thanks for the laugh,i needed it.You break me up.

Love the puzzle Aldege. My mom used to have a wringer washer and I remember cathcing the clothes out the end. It was great fun until I did it one day with dirty hands and my fun was over. We got new laundry when we moved into our new house and the new front load washer gets the clothes so wrung out that you almost don't have to put them in a dryer.

Thx Susan,i remember pulling the clothes out too,i thought it was cool.Your right about the front load washers,you almost don't need a dryer.

Who remembers bluing the whites in the rinse water? lol

not me.

This is such a great image. And a little trip down memory lane. And a reminder of how lucky I am to have a laundry room with working modern machines. My mom used a wringer washer when I was little. She grew up with one so that's how she preferred to launder her clothes. I hated pulling those frozen stiff jeans off the line. Anyway, great puzzle :)

Thx Alicia,i remember trying to put my jeans on,and they were stiff and sometimes still a little damp,lol.:)

they worked good for me when i went on a hot date :D

That's funny Tom,you probably didn't put on underwear either,ouch unless you have a hood on.lol:)

ROFL!

I once stayed at a back-country bed & breakfast in New Zealand that had electric washers but just a clothes line for drying. I remember the woman who ran it laughing her head off at one of the girls in our group who couldn't entirely figure how to work the clothes line. The girl was quite short, couldn't reach the line, and hadn't figured out that it could be lowered by moving the prop pole.

When I was a kid, my Girl Scout troop would go winter camping. Our troop leader had us hang wet dishtowels and clothes out on the cabin's clothesline. They would freeze and get stiff as a board. They didn't dry much.

A generation later when I chaperoned a troop of Girl Scouts on a winter camping trip, there was a washer and dryer in the house we stayed in. The dryer didn't work well, but it was still much better than having frozen-stiff dishtowels.

Also, if you go outdoors in freezing weather with long hair that is wet, it freezes and gets stiff. You can fold it and it may stay that way for a while. I always liked that!

As a Boy Scout growing up in Texas, we didn't have as many opportunities to freeze-n-fold our wet hair :)

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