Sometimes back when I lived in Chandler, I’d get sneaky and hang up clothesline below the fence. Mostly I hung towels on it. [Why, when the kids are in the pool three times in one day do they need three towels?]

The good thing was that things never had to hang out long enough to get dusty- it always seemed like things would dry in about 15 minutes.

Southern AZ seems (to me) too dusty to put just-washed clothes outdoors, but I guess the spring and summer heat would dry them pretty quickly.

Too bad this video from the Premier’s website isn’t embedable:

http://www.premier.gov.on.ca/journal/index.php?page=2&journal=51&Lang=En

I love the slogan in the background, “Take a load off Toronto and let it all hang out.”

you have scroll down a bit to see the rules about clothes lines

This was wildly OT, but I got a kick out of our local weather report today:

Reacting sharply to critics of his rainfall stimulus plan enacted just yesterday, Lower Colorado River Authority president Torrence DeLuge this morning asked for patience from the people of Central Texas.

After the first of a mandatory two days of rainfall, critics on both sides of the controversial Hill Country Drought Recovery and Lake Basin Reinvestment Act, are calling the measure a failure.

Some critics say Thursday night’s rain was too little too late to stamp out a drought that has reached its bony hand in to pluck out the very heart of the Hill Country. Hard liners on the other side – one fringe group had called for 40 days and 40 nights of rain – are clamoring today for second and, perhaps, a third rainfall stimulus from the LCRA.

The consensus criticism has been the wildly uneven distribution of the government mandated rainfall. Over the past six hours, according to LCRA rainfall readings citizens about an hour east of Austin received a veritable rain windfall. Harper, just west of Fredericksburg got 2.57 inches of rain. Doss, a little north of there, got 2.20 inches and Cherokee, south of San Saba got 2.06 inches.

Closer to Austin, Barton Creek at Highway 71 in Oak Hill got 1.04 inches. Dripping Springs got 1.02 inches, Blanco 1.01 inches and Lake Buchanan at Cedar Point 97-inch.

However, during the same time period in other parts of the Hill County, Florence got just .07 inch Backbone Creek at Marble Falls .13 inch and Spicewood got .19 inch of rain.

In Austin the disparity was just as glaring. Camp Mabry recorded .67 inch of rain over the past six hours while Austin-Bergstrom International Airport received just .20 inch, according to the National Weather Service.

“Apparently, the wet get wetter and the dry get drier,” Florence rancher Cud Bleffarts said this morning standing next to a mud cracked stock tank, holding a cupped and upturned hand toward the sky.

A weary and bedraggled DeLuge this morning promised that a much more dramatic rainfall today would allow the LCRA to meet all of its goals for the success of the rainfall stimulus plan.

After all the baloney I usually wade through from the MSM, maybe I’m just too easily entertained any more.

Believe it or not, I recently saw a home where the owners had stretched clotheslines all over the front porch.

I’m of the “no harm, no foul” school of front yard landscaping. Whatever I do shouldn’t make it difficult for my neighbor to sell his house. Consequently I think rules against things like hoses and windchimes are silly. I think I’d hesitate to buy the house next door to the folks with all the laundry out front though.

If HOAs stuck to health hazards and trashed out front yards, I’d think they were great. Unfortunately they are often manned by folks who fulfill their power trips by trying to dictate what shade of tan you can paint your trim.

That said, a clothesline does belong in the backyard, not the front. However, I doubt that in reality that has been an issue.

How very sensible of you and your neighbors.

My clothesline is below grade and not visible from the street. My neighbor can only see the line from his backyard- not from any of his windows. That didn’t stop him for coming over right after we moved in to tell us that the line was against the CC&Rs.

According to the man that built the house, the line was on the plan when the house plans were submitted to the architectural committee. Apparently they didn’t notice the line and approved it- so we do have an exception.

I’ll agree that if clothes are hanging all over the front porch, it’s not a class look, but I don’t see what the big deal is when the line is in the backyard.

Mr. Twist and I between us spent five years on our homeowner’s board in AZ. We did it to try and keep the radicals off of the board. Sadly, too many people are concerned about the color of their neighbor’s basketball pole or if they left their hose in the front yard.

Igor “dislikes” it, and so do I.

Mrs M would perish without a line. We live in a perfectly good R2 neighbourhood and everyone hangs. Just two difficulties … 1) the dollar stores no longer carry sock dryers; and 2) Environment Canada occasionally over-promises sun