Old fashioned laundry

Im running a bit behind with my postings as yesterday was a very busy day. Yesterday I was grateful for my health. There are so many people in the world that just struggle to live each day due to sickness or disease.

“If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.” ~ Abraham Lincoln Besides the brilliant sense of accomplishment, healthy lifestyle of physical activity and the sweetness of $avings, there is something morally and spiritually strengthening when involving oneself in old fashioned labor. It is the blessed business that keeps you out of everyone else's business. "A life of full and constant employment is the only safe and happy one. If we suffer the mind and…

VIctorian Laundry is a photograph uploaded to the Pentax User website by KatieW.

John Gibbons was a foreman at the du Pont Black Powder Mill at Hagley Yards.. In 1802 a French immigrant, Eleuthere Irenee du Pont, chose the banks of Brandywine Creek to start his black powder mills. He chose the location because of the natural energy that the water provided; the availability of timber and willow trees (used to produce quality charcoal required for superior black powder); the proximity to the Delaware River (on which other ingredients of the powder, sulfur, and saltpeter…

Have you ever wondered how our ancestors did laundry? Join me in this re-enactment of a primitive traditional wash day.

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Wash boards and wash tub by Vintage Flair Cupcakes. We used the wash boards to work on hand washing before we washed.. especially on dirty work clothes.

First, an apology for such a delay in posting. Two birthdays, the flu, food poisoning, and family visits in the last 8 days or so have pret...

It was 47 degrees in our bedroom this morning. And not much less than that outside. Our bedroom is in the uninsulated 1880 part of our house which we don’t even bother to heat. We just pile on the quilts and snuggle down. Our sleeping arrangements aren’t much different that those […]

Wash Day by Jane Kenyon. "You'll laugh but I feel it: some power has gone from the sun." I always feel it too. Mornings are immediately different, more sluggish, after the solstice.