While I'm on my Four Week sabbatical an item at the top of my to-do list is to install a clothesline. I didn't realize however that I would be doing something so revolutionary. I'm glad I'll be saving the planet and thumbing my nose at all those homeowners associations (I refuse to live in a tract home with a homeowners association anyway, because I just don't want someone telling me what color I can paint my house and that I have to mow my lawn). Really, though, I just like to be outside and I'm a total cheapskate, so a clothesline seems like a nice idea. I would like to address one item in that article, however. How on earth do you have an $1,120 electric bill?! I get really peeved when ours goes up over a hundred dollars in the middle of summer when the husband insists on running the air conditioner day and night. That's great that the author thinks she's making a difference in the world by hanging up her clothes, but I really want to know what they have plugged in to use that much energy? She's quite proud of the fact that they then reduced their bill to a mere 500-something dollars. Still, what the heck are you running when you pay that kind of utility bill? Also, do you really think Al Gore is out there hanging up his laundry on the clothesline? I'd love to see a picture of that.
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1. venice, 2. paper crane, 3. luft, 4. clothesline, 5. Bandanas, 6. I'll Run Away With You to a Small Town., 7. laundry, 8. Forgotten, 9. No wind.., 10. dresses dry, 11. gran pavese, 12. Clothesline, 13. rooftop, 14. Les culottes blanches sur le mur--The white underwear on the wall, 15. Not a good day for washing........, 16. Country living
