Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Beauty of clotheslines



My mom is in the New Hampshire state legislature, and fighting the good fight. What they fight about in New Hampshire, and many other places, is whether you should have a state-mandated right to dry your clothes on a clothesline, or whether individual communities can ban this practice. Despite all the macro and microeconomic goodness that comes from not using an electric dryer powered ultimately by probably fossil fuels, the banners describe clotheslines as a blight and indicative of poor neighborhoods. In the name of property values, the practice is banned (this is not going well).

While in SLC, I thought my sister-in-law's clothesline was actually quite a nice sight.

1 comment:

dscokween said...

so that is a lovely photo. I'm happy that I was able to finally have my clothesline poles made this year; they are not available by any national retailer. Mostly they need to be made by a local welder.

Incidentally, putting a clothesline under a very large tree isn't necessarily a recommended place. We attract a lot of birds in our yard and occasionally the clothes just go right back in the washer.