[AT] Remembering Mom's Clothesline OT

[Ivan]

My grandmother had a washhouse . It was connected to the house by a 
enclosed walkway . You heated water on a old wood cookstove ,at one 
point it had a hot water coil in it but grandma wouldnt have running 
water so you used big pots to heat water. It had a hand dug well with a 
pitcher pump and a cast iron sink with a drain hose that was just stuck 
thru the wall , It was also the bathouse, you used a big galvenized tub 
to bathe in . Years later when one uncle went to work he put in a 
electric pump and a single faucet . But Grandma would use the hand pump 
anyhow . In summertime the clothes were hung outside, but in winter she 
would put up a cotton clothesline in side the washouse. She used to use 
the old irons that you had to heat on the stove but later on she did 
convert to one of them newfangled  electric one's .
  Years later when she had to be moved to the senior high rise in town 
,she was fascinated by the running water . Ivan
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