Monday, January 6, 1941

ORLO DRAWS MANURE. EDNA HANGS CLOTHES TO DRY.

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Mostly cloudy and

damp atmosphere.

Washed - hung clothes in

attick the colored ones.

Hung white clothes out

doors.

Sold to G.R. pedler 18 doz

eggs @ 20¢ per doz.

Orlo drawing manure

putting top dressing on

wheat.

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Manure Spreader circa 1941

Orlo wasn't using a pencil and paper to create art of manure, he was gathering actual manure from the barnyard to spread on the field as fertilizer.

It's January. I believe that drawing manure would be a better job in the colder months than in the warmer months. But, I can't say for certain. I have never drawn manure (on paper or from the barnyard).

Growing up, my mom had a clothes dryer but she also had a clothesline and on nice days she would hang the clothes out to dry. I remember a fabric bag with a wire hook (of sorts) that hung on the line and contained clothes pins. The bag had two kinds of clothes pins. The newer model clips and old style pins.

I somewhat ashamedly admit that in my adult life I have only used clothespins for a kid's art project.

There was a law and order to how clothes were hung. I found a fun article detailing the rules of the clothesline that were part modesty, part functionality, and part best practice.

On this cold and cloudy day in 1941, Edna hung only part of her clothes to dry outside. She hung the rest in the attic.

I can almost smell the cool crispness of the laundry fresh off the line in January.