Reply #54: Closeline

[dcfirefighter]

I saw, somewhere, a round clothes rack for drying. Basically a hoop with clips, and a central hangar. Idea being you could fit more clothes in a smaller place, like a covered porch, or even indoors - which might be useful to you in rainy Oregon.

A home garden can be quite addictive, and can potentially reduce the fuel spent to get a portion of your food from the farm to you. I recommend Square Foot Gardening and Sustainable Vegetable Garden. I've always wanted to try a miniature forest garden: dwarf / semi-dwarf fruit trees, hazlenut bushes, berry bushes, fruit vines, and fruit groundcover (strawberries. etc), herbs, and maybe asparagus. All pretty much perennial.