Since it is likely a hot summer day for those of you north of the equator, I thought today’s video might cool you off.
A tutorial on how people in Northern Scandinavia do their laundry.
Here in Phoenix, we just leave the clothes on the sidewalk where they burst into flames. Much easier.
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It’s like chopping through the ice
to find another rhyming word,
but it’s worth it ’cause it’s nice
that I might still be heard.
Then the words must be arranged
on lines over my mental snow
so that my muse, although deranged,
may tell them where and how to go
into order, into sense
into a semblance of a metre,
and when we all have leapt this fence,
we will not have a world-beater
but to make effort worthwhile,
a sonnet that might make you smile.
I sense you are trying to tell us something, Steve. I will ponder this deeply until the mists clear and a bulb illuminates the darkness. Stand by. This may take a while.
Dang! I feel better already!
Thank you!
I don’t think so. LOL #1… She wouldn’t be out in that weather dressed as she was. #2 She’d more likely take a fishing pole with her. #3 The clothes would have frozen on the line. Much better to take them inside in front of the fire. But okay, I’ll not complain about our washing machine anymore. Don’t know how you heard me do that, but I’ll stop. LOL
How does one spell ‘hypothermia?’ Dry cleaning is underrated.
I suppose, like the Phoenix, the clothes are reborn as baby clothes and grow to your size shortly after.
Steve:
This post gives me an excuse to cut-and-paste an excerpt from my latest book with Skyhorse Publishing, Happy Semiquincentennial, America!: 250 Reasons Why America is Still Worth Celebrating. I present reason #18. And unlike the Nordic woman in your amusing, but exaggerated, video, this tale of rustic laundering is true.
#18 OLD FAITHFUL
Discovered and named by a military expedition in 1870, this world-famous geyser faithfully erupts every forty-four minutes to two hours. It’s not the tallest or largest geyser in Yellowstone National Park, but it draws a crowd knowing they won’t have to wait long before Old Faithful blasts up to 8,400 gallons of boiling water as high as 185 feet in the air for as long as five minutes.
Not long after its discovery, the geyser was used by soldiers as a washing machine. They’d toss their dirty laundry in the crater, and it would soon be ejected freshly, scalded clean. Linen and cotton fabrics did well, while woolen clothes were shredded. Tourists are not encouraged to try that today.