"George Shirley" wrote in message
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Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:
"George Shirley" wrote in message
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snippage of a wonderful story

I had forgotten about clothes lines.

(more big snip)

hey!! I have a clothes line! I actually have 2!!! I used to fill the
original one and then have to wait for everything to dry before I could pull
it all down and fill it back up again. So I begged for another. Now I have
2 that are as long as we could get clothes line rope for. Everything goes
on the clothes lines. I'm known as the Laundry Queen in my neighbourhood -
I have a neighbour who tries to get her laundry out before I do every
Saturday morning - it has become a competition - she'll never win. ;-)

My grandmother loves my clothes lines. She told me the story of how she
used to open the bathroom window on the second floor of the 2 story house my
Dad (and his 5 siblings) grew up in, to lean out to hang the day's laundry -
all year round. This after hand washing everything and putting through the
ringer. Her hands tell the truer story.

I cook and bake all the time and my family appreciates it when I do. I've
been a stay at home mom for 10 years, but am now back at work full time, so
the baking is suffering a bit. Most of this year's preserving is done for
2007 - I have a few things in the freezer that I put there "for when I have
the time".

Much of what I do is because it's what my Mom did. I think my 2 girls will
learn by example. At least I hope so, for Holly (my 8 year old) will never
find a strawberry kiwi jam as good as what she's used to

Kathi