As a kid I grew up with a clothesline and still have one. During the summer clothes dried on the line smell great after a screaming hot day, but I think they smell even better in winter after being freeze dried.

Bird poop happens to the best of us LOL.

I no longer have a clothes line, but would if my shoulders would allow me to reach up to hang things. I too love the smell of line dried laundry. Mother taught us how to hang things on the line, pants from the waist, tops from the bottom and sheets hung folded but from the edges, not the folded part and socks from the toes.

Sue

like Jasdip,I too use a clothesline year round

My bed sheets dry all year long on my back deck. Gotta have that fresh air scent when I sleep.

first big purchase after buying this house, was a clothes drying rack, the kind you unfold, for the back yard. I dry 99% of the time out doors, but have to folding indoor racks for winter/rainy times. Most times, one can just wait a day or two to do ones laundry. ;)

Moni

I find the air too dirty to dry things outside where I live. I do hang dry most of my clothing indoors, but resort to the dryer for sheets and towels.

We hang our laundry outdoors mostly, but sometimes in the basement. Recently when were making sauerkraut in the basement I did not like how the laundry smelled!

I have a very short clothesline but do hang out as much as I can. Kassala, could you have hauled the load to a laundromat?

hope it's an easy fix on the dryer.

Sorry this happened. I am not a clothesline person, although I remember growing up that I helped my mother hang clothes on the "clothes tree".

I say a little prayer each time I start my washer or dryer...they are 33+ years old!

10 large oaks with lots of birds make clothes drying outdoors precarious, LOL.

Thanks, Socks. I'm hoping it's an easy dryer fix too. It tumbles but won't heat. Checked the circuit breaker but beyond that I'm a know-nothing.

Since it's Sunday I haven't yet contacted a repairperson. I'm going to do a couple more loads of laundry today and get that clothesline working again. It's a gorgeous sunny day, windy and should be in the 50s again. Amazing November weather for Minnesota!

My washer and dryer were gifts from parents back in the 1980s. Maytag. Those machines don't owe us anything but I dearly hope for repair and not replace. They don't make laundry machines like these nowadays.

For instance my washing machine has a Suds Saver feature. It pulls the used soapy water out of the washer and into the laundry tub. The water sits in the laundry tub until I want to re-use it. Then the washer sucks the used water back into itself for a second load of laundry. Great for doing jeans, throw rugs, dog blankets. Easier on the septic system. I rarely do a single laundry load. I always plan two. One with the new water and one with the "pull back" water. LOL

Kessala

Have one of those things that sorta looks like an umbrella that has turned inside out in the wind... just cords to hang clothes on. I don't know which is better... the smell of sheets dried in the sun or the feel of them.

You know what? Last night I opened my t-shirt drawer and got a shirt that had been washed and line dried a week ago. It still had that outdoor smell. It made me think about how fabric softeners and detergents are advertised to have long lasting smell. Well, I don't use fabric softener, and I use detergent bought in bulk so long ago that the perfumes in it have dissipated already. So my laundry's lasting scent is just the good ol' outdoors.

Hubby changed the bed this morning, and when I went into the bedroom a while later, the whole bedroom smelled nice and fresh and outdoorsy. Even through the it was only the sheets that had been dried outdoors a week ago, not the quilt and comforter.