Line Drying: Project Laundry List

AN ORGANIZATION FOR CLOTHESLINE USE

While reading an article about a woman who had to get her landlord to change rules to let her use a clothesline, came across this website all about laundry and air drying.

http://www.laundrylist.org/

Project Laundry List is making air-drying and cold-water washing laundry acceptable and desirable as simple and effective ways to save energy.

I've been using our little wooden clothes hanger all summer and am sorry now to have to start using the dryer some. But I still hang clothes inside on the thing. You can just leave the stuff there for days if you want to, don't have to run to empty the dryer and make sure its on the right cycle, etc.

When we were in Haifa a few years ago everyone hung their stuff out to dry everywhere, just on the porches and decks of apartments. Just made it look like a lived-in neighborhood, nothing wrong with that. More friendly feeling, I think.

No More Buying Cheap Salmon

Economical shopper that I am, I rarely buy salmon if its over 6.00 a lb, and I haven't asked recently where it comes from, but odds are its raised in a crowded pen on the edge of a body of salt water, mixing with the oceans. My daughter tells me what's wrong with farmed salmon. Not only does it lack much of the nutritional value of wild salmon, the farmed salmon & their diseases are moving from the farms to the open waters, directly threatening the wild species. Read more about it at Save Our Wild Salmon and Why Wild Salmon , a very informative site from Trout Unlimited. So far, I've learned: -- Its good to eat wild salmon if its caught responsibly, encouraging that fishing industry -- Not good to eat farmed salmon of any kind, shouldn't support that industry --There is no more salmon farming in Puget Sound, or anywhere in the US. It was outlawed due to disease in the fish and other factors. --Salmon is farmed on Vancouver Island, and in northern European...

After the Heat Wave

Now that we have survived the worst heat wave in Seattle history -- only 4 or 5 days really, but enough to make some of us wish we were anywhere else -- we take another look at the raingarden. Today it is lush and green, although I have barely watered it. We had one day of rain in July, I think, so some drain water was available. I may have turned the hose on it occasionally when I was passing by to water the vegetables planted nearby, but no regular watering in the swale of the rain garden. Yet we have lush croscomia, yellow twig dogwood, pieris, hellebore, solomon's seal, sedums, and not too many weeds. The load of arborist wood chips I had dumped in the nearby parking strip overflowed into the raingarden, so thick layer of the chips covered over everything there. No damage, just a thick blanket (3-4 inches) of protective mulch.

Rain Garden Project

Rain Garden - Modified Dug a hole, not too big, reading thru the Rain Garden Handbook and trying to follow every step. But my space is more of a drainage area on the way to other drainage areas, but still it can be a sort of a rain garden.

The Convergence Zone

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