We like to think that we have planned all the things that have come to pass in developing our homesite. Honestly, we’re not quite that smart. We didn’t plan on a basement. It was a happy accident. So, of course, we didn’t plan on the laundry in the basement. And we didn’t plan on a basement door (because, no basement.) So we’re just lucky that, just a bit outside the basement door there’s a tree, located exactly one load of laundry from the house.
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I love the smell of air-dried laundry! Jeans are a bit stiff, but, oh, well! I think you may be aware that during one of the energy crises in CA, a law was passed to permit clothes lines in “nice” neighborhoods where they were outlawed. Silly to have to do that!
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Once upon a time, I think I was a California scoflaw. In Oakland, you nearly always have weather to dry laundry. (I’m not sure if our neighborhood was sufficiently “nice” to have forbidden it–I never checked.)
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Well, you could have always put in a pole to hang the line on. Also, I always suggested the whole basement thing, it’s OK, I don’t need any accolades on being right.
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Oh yes, my most wondrous sister. You were right! I bow down to your wisdom and foresight. And yet, we have somehow managed to stumble along in our miserable little lives…
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Good thing too! I can’t always be there to pick you up. But you are doing quite well now, so I am proud of you baby sister.
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I like that description – one load of laundry from the house!
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It just worked out that way.
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Also good that the line catches the sun and prevailing breezes; )
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Planned, all planned, my dear. We put that sun there.
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lol. Yes of course you did; )
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But, now that I look more closely, you have a single line and no pulleys… Does that mean you move along the clothesline with laundry basket on a wagon – rather than pegging at the house and the laundry moves out (or in) as you move the line? It’s small investment and a great time-saver (especially if an unexpected rain shower catches you short; )
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Maybe I’ll get a pulley sometime. This was an accommodation–a temporary, for the wife who has everything.
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They also sell something called a clothesline elevator (usually +/- 4’) so you can hang your clothes at a comfortable (shoulder) height and then ‘run em up the pole’ so to speak, to get laundry farther off the ground. Had one for decades and they totally rock!; )
Then you truly could be ‘the wife who has everything’ lol
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Oh, and if you are looking at them, the better setup has a pulley as a built in part, not purchased separately (so impossible for it accidentally come apart (full of clean, wet laundry, of course:/)
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I had a pulley system, for years in Oakland. (Couldn’t hand laundry in Two Rock–I tried, but it came in smelling like cow manure from the dairy next door.) I’m sure we’ll get there at some point, but right now we’re clearing various permit issues–and that takes priority.
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There you go again, airing your dirty laundry for all to see! tee hee
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I thought I took the photo from far enough back for reasonable privacy standards.
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