Published July 22, 2009 05:28 pm - Excuse me if my column this week is, well, a little dry.
Fight for rights to air dry outside A ROBERT LEBZELTER column for July 26, 2009
Star Beacon
Excuse me if my column this week is, well, a little dry.
It’s about Susan Taylor of Oregon, subject of a recent CBS News report.
Taylor is pioneering her cause.
Oh sure, there are lots of causes. Every once in awhile we have another of those tea party rallies, where people protest for the right to continue our bad health care, oppose spending money on road repairs and other infrastructure improvements and think it is all going to result in loss of our freedoms.
They know, and we should too, that going into massive federal deficits will endanger our freedoms if the money is used for domestic reasons. If the cash goes to the rich so they can afford to build plants in third-world countries or to wage a war in Iraq we should have never started, that is preserving our freedoms.
But Taylor's cause won't increase the federal deficit. If everyone does as Taylor, we might have a slightly smaller deficit, because less money might have to be put toward ending global warming.
Susan does what my mother did and maybe yours, too. She hangs her clothes out to dry.
But she lives in a pristine allotment and she signed an agreement with the homeowners’ association saying she would not dry her clothes outside.
But she told CBS News that was before global warming was such an issue. So she is thumbing her nose and her clothes pins at the agreement and is hanging her clothes up.
Her neighbors are aghast at the thought of sheets and towels and can I say it, possibly underwear, billowing in the breeze.
Granted, there are trees and what looks like beautiful valleys in the neighborhood. I would call it rustic.
Well, isn't rustic sort of a throwback to earlier times? And what says rustic more than clothes on a clothes line?
One snooty neighbor told CBS to the effect, "How would you like to look out and see this every day?"
Frankly, I wouldn't think too much about it. Of course, I live in a naturally rustic area, complete with dirt roads and septic tanks.
My mother, when we were growing up, hung her clothes in the side yard. She had a line going from the house to a post that marked the property line. But hold on, the neighbor had a line from that same post to her home.
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