[AT] Remembering Mom's Clothesline OT

[Mike Sloane]

In our township there is a "gated private community" of several
thousand. In the "covenants", residents are specifically forbidden to
hang laundry outside. I guess it is considered too "middle class" for
the gentry.

It seems to me that cleaning the clothesline was only necessary if you 
lived near where the trains came through. And if you did, you had to 
make sure the laundry was taken in before the train passed, or they 
would be covered with soot. Another problem was smoke and soot from coal 
fired home boilers in the winter. I don't recall how we dealt with that 
problem.

Mike

On 2/13/2012 6:13 PM, Dave Rotigel wrote:
> Remembering Mom's Clothesline Author unknown
>
> You have to be a "certain age" to appreciate this one. I can hear my
> mother now.