Pat Shingleton for August 5, 2012

After a dozen years of tossing 130 words into the B section on “weather-related” items, I appreciate our readers requesting clarifications. As noted previously, a summertime task was “stretching the clothesline.” Secured at the garage, the flagpole, and the porch, the line was stretched back to the garage. Here is where mom “hung out the clothes” — kept off the ground with a “clothes-prop.” A shower emptied the house as kids, a grandfather and neighborhood buddies scrambled to retrieve the clothes before they were rerinsed by Mother Nature. Another green initiative includes people opting to hang their laundry on clotheslines instead of using energy-sucking dryers.
Fastcast: Showery