Wash Day!

Monday is Wash Day? Huh? Really?

Well why is it raining out there? Huh?

Cause you all know that I like to hang my laundry out on the clothesline.

Emma likes me to hang clothes out on the line too.

See her running thru my laundry?

I can not and I mean I CAN NOT get to my clothesline without Patches

(the barn cat) helping me.

She will be gone for days and suddenly return when

she smells Downy!

She is all over wet laundry.

That's part of the beauty of my laundry hamper thingy

that I got at the yardsale last year and made over in toile.

She can't reach my wet laundry!! haha

Guineas like laundry on the line too.

Do you see how I use my vintage enamelware?

As a laundry basket and a laundry soak!

How about that Wringer Washer?

It was my dads aunts and it still runs beautifully.

I just need hot water outside somewhere so I can use it without having to carry enamelware buckets full of hot water ;-)

The enamelware buckets could make that task a little bit easier!

The laundry sinks I bought from a neighbor lady.

They were her mothers and I stayed with her mother when I worked for home health.

I had to give $10 for them!

Best $10 I ever spent!

I have had them for about 12 years now.

They have had many jobs around this farm.

They must be Timex...they have taken a lickin and they keep on tickin!!

The vintage aprons on the line are from ebay!

The clothes pegs are from ebay also.

The clothespin apron I made last year!

It sure does come in handy!

The crocheted pillowcases, basking in the sun drenched back porch, were my Grandma Goldie's that she made!

I also have an umbrella clothesline on my back deck in the summer and in an outbuilding during the winter. I have a folding plastic dryer that I use in my bedroom, or somewhere in my house year round.

Can you see that I love my clothesline?

I love laundry!

I love to iron laundry!

I just don't like rainy Mondays....or snowy Mondays!

I was inspired to do this after reading a post from The Canned Quilter

at Hickery Holler Farm today.

Go on over and read her post from today

if you have a clothesline,

if you have a daughter,

granddaughter,

or if you are a woman!

She had me in stitches!!!

Happy rainy wash day everyone!

Vintage laundry hamper cart thingy......

Did I tell you that I like toile? I also like laundry or at least somedays I like laundry. I don't like it when it gets piled up. I love love love handwashing! I think I will like it all while using this!
Before!
This is one of my Friday yardsale treasures only $2

I knew it had potential. I used the old liner as a pattern.

The old liner only had one pocket but I decided that I wanted two. I don't know why but they are there now. One for clothespins and the other for a bottle of water and a snack? LOL!!! Everything I do is centered around food!!!

I love the toile. I had purchased this fabric with no project in mind. The brown denim was a remnant for $1 intended to make me a pair of run-around-the-house-and-paint-furniture-in-shorts but I was too busy painting furniture to get them made. The buttons were from my stash I have had for years and years. I have something like $6 in the finished project including my vintage clothespins!!!

Hope you are having a great Labor Day! Does sewing count as labor? If so I am not taking the holiday off. Too many ideas in this head that need to become into fruition. Wish me luck! I have gave Danny the entire day off. I have asked for nothing as of yet, but the day is young ;-) Wish him luck on that one too!!

Thru the eyes of a child

Emma had the best time yesterday running thru my laundry that was hanging on the line. She loved the quilt, which by the way was my yardsale find last Sat.

Emma stayed with me all day and we had a lot of fun. Robin came over and we went fishing in the pond, caught 5 bluegill and threw them back. Colton and Leslie showed up while we were fishing and Colton got to fish too. He is such a "boy"... "I can cast by myself leave me alone" ..... and yes he can!!

Happy 7 year anniversary in our home!

This is the inside of my new dairy barn and milking stanchion. The barn is shown below near the white picket fence. Not intended to be a barn but sure made a nice one. The doorway is about 2" too short though and I have cracked my head on it too many times to count, maybe one day I will learn to duck.

Look at my old wringer and wash sinks. I love to use them!!

It is hard to believe but we moved in 7 years ago today. I wish I could post the before pics because we have done so much around here. A new roof, vinyl siding, foundation and rock, lots of buildings, a new bedroom on the back of the house, tons of landscaping, a garden pond and a 1/2 acre fish pond, dairy barn, picket fence, more fencing, 2 new covered porches and 2 new patios, and lots and lots and lots of bulldozing and we cut or push down or top another tree every year (so I will have something to do cleaning up the mess) and I can't even remember what else we have done cuz I am wore out. I really enjoy it here though. It is so peaceful nothing but the birds and goats talking.