Laundry as Activism

Yesterday, my Breezecatcher rotary clothesline arrived via UPS. (There's barely space in our driveway to turn around our little car, let alone a big ol' delivery truck, but the driver was really adept at backing up. Guess he has to be making deliveries in these narrow parts.) The clothesline looks like something like this:



I'll post some pics after I get it set up. Right now it's set up like a patio umbrella through the holes in the table on our deck. I've already dried two loads on it. The clothes dry just about as fast as on the highest heat setting in the dryer. Our three-armed version of the clothesline will hold about 2 1/2 super-sized loads of laundry at at time. And I figure it'll take only about 200 loads to pay for itself. (It was fairly expensive, but it is super sturdy, should last for decades.)

Speaking of clotheslines, here's a nice group on Flickr, called "Beautiful Clotheslines." Just proves to me even more that environmentally friendly things are often so aesthetically pleasing. Don't you want to go hang something on a line?: