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| Southeastern Iowa at the Stringtown Amish community north of Kalona on a very cold fall day |
When the wash went on the outside clothes line no matter how cold it was?
When clothes sometimes were freeze-dried, and stiff as a board?
When most barns were red and utility poles only had 2 lines..one for electricity and one for the telephone?
When cattle gleaned in the harvested corn field?
Bonnie, my sister-in-law, and I talked about this yesterday morning over coffeetime. She remembers her mother hanging wash on a line in the living room in the coldest months; Myrna and I remember hanging laundry in the basement furnace room. None of us had a clothes dryer until we married. And no, none of us want to go back to winter outside clothes drying. I do use laundry racks and hangers for a lot of our wash, but I also have a first-floor laundry room that our mothers would have appreciated.
I am one of those people who still puts the laundry out on the line to freeze dry. If it is to cold I dry them on racks in front of the wood stove.
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