Today's word? Laundry! And go!
I don't mind doing laundry. It's rather satisfying to fill our closets with clean clothes again, and get to the bottom of our green bucket laundry hamper. And the kids' green cloth bag. Or to see the bottom of the diaper bucket again.
I do miss doing laundry in the summer though. On a sunny Newfoundland day, there's no better way to dry your clothes than to let them flap out in the fresh North Atlantic wind. This is such a classic Newfoundland sight that its become almost an icon in the latest tourism series... lots of quaint clotheslines with lines of quilts, colourful blankets.
I'm not really sure why the government emphasizes the clothesline so much in their tourism propaganda here, but I think it's something to do with the quaintness of days gone by and slowing down. It takes longer to peg items onto a line. It takes a while to bring them back in. But it symbolizes a time when mothers stayed home more and had time to do this, when no one had heard of indoor dryers, or when they were a luxury to be used only by those who could afford electricity. Some think that a clothesline is an eyesore.. I think that some neighbourhoods even ban them. I'm glad ours doesn't, because I think it's rather nice.
And stop.. that's my five minutes! Not really very profound, but that's kind of the point of this exercise... to see what comes to your head.
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| from a recent tourism campaign.. source http://www.releases.gov.nl.ca/releases/2007/tcr/0620n08.htm |
3 comments:
I remember helping my mom hang up laundry when I could barely reach the line. And not long after my husband and I were married, we lived in a house that had a line up; even in the middle of winter, I'd hang up jeans and bring them in frozen. My next home, I hope, will have a clothesline! Thanks for the memory - and I can see how that would help tourism - remembering the days when life was simpler!
I love clean sheets day! Nothing better than schnuggling into a freshly made bed with lovely smelling sheets! Glad to read your post and see what you are thinking about!! Ps-too funny about the NFLD tourism ads!
You make me miss my clothesline! I love clothes dried on the line and have not had the option in our current home, where we've been for 16 years now.
As a teenager I hated it when Mama would leave a load in the washer and make me hang them out during summer vacation. Age and time have ways of changing our perspective!
Thanks for sharing!
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