Monday 10 May 2021

Tulips

 

Happy new week!  Laundry  is what I'm doing this morning and already my washer has frustrated me as it insists on adding more and more rinse cycles so that I'm forced to stay nearby to stop it. Not exactly an "automatic" washer. Sorry to complain but it has been a problem almost from the beginning. However....it's still better than the old way of doing laundry. Probably few of you ever used a wringer washer like I did in the early years of our marriage. 

I'll leave you with a few pictures of tulips...both mine and also my DIL's. She grows the very fancy ones in the last 3 pictures.



 



Have a great Monday.  Thanks for taking time out of your day to drop by.


GM


24 comments:

  1. What pretty flowers! I grow the "normal" tulips, your DIL's fancy ones are beautiful. I didn't have one of the wringer washers but my Aunt Anna did and when I visited her I loved to help her with the laundry. My four girl cousins were thrilled to have me visit as they were excused from helping with the laundry while I was there! Have a great week!

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  2. Lovely tulips, amazing the colours that they come up with.
    I had a Burco washer boiler back in the 1060s!!

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    1. I had to look up just what a Burco boiler was. Very interesting and I can imagine it was very useful.

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  3. Beautiful tulips.
    I didn't have a wringer washer, but I remember mom's. And her washboard too.

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  4. What beautiful tulips! The colours they have managed to produce now are incredible and it is something to really look forward too each spring. When I was first married we had a twin tub which was quite a bit of work but I remember being thrilled with it.

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  5. The tulips are beautiful. I love all of them.
    I remember my mother having a wringer washer for a short time.
    Putting off my laundry till tomorrow - hoping for better drying weather!

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    1. Popping in to answer your question about the sign at the pond.
      Accident is the name of the town where I live in western Maryland!! :)

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  6. The flowers are all gorgeous! I can't even imagine having to use a wringer washer, that could not have been fun. Have a great week GM. :)

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  7. We don't grow Tulips anymore, the squirrels dig them up! But I do remember my mother's old wringer washer.

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  8. The first big wish of my mother was to have such a machine to help her for her hands!

    Tulips are my LOVE!

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  9. I remember my mother using a ringer washer, but I got to go modern.

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  10. What gorgeous tulips! I love them! Great pictures.

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  11. I can see how everyone caught "Tulipmania" in Holland! So beautiful. I am partial to the fringed especially. My mother used a wringer for a long, long time, until she rolled her fingertips up into it, and then out it went and the new modern washer was bought! I think that was in the 1950s. I have a super-simple washer I got, it isn't a fancy brand (Roper) and it suits me very well. I have a Roper dryer, too. And a big clothesline. That is very inconvenient to have to monitor the washer like that!

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  12. Such pretty
    flowers. We didn't have an auomtic washer and dryer until I was in high school. I havd to beg my parents to let me go.
    Good luck and blessings,
    Betsy

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  13. My mother had used the old style washing machine you had to spend the day doing washing!
    I love the different colours of the tulips, very nice.

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  14. The tulips are so pretty. I remember watching my grandmother with her wringer-washer - she always emptied the suds over her citrus trees!

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  15. Onze moeders op en top huisvrouw weten wat maandag wasdag is, de hele dag in de weer met de wastobbe,wasbord en de wringer had niet iedereen.
    Mijn moeder wrong de was nog lange tijd met de hand.
    In Holland hebben we tulpen zover je kijken kan, voor corona verbleven we graag in die tijd van het jaar in B&B bij bollenboer in Noord-Holland, helaas nou niet.
    Blogposten te vinden op mijn blog.

    Lieve groet,
    Ger

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  16. Beautiful tulips. The ones in my yard are volunteers, I didn't plant a one. Sometimes they come up and sometimes not. This year none? My washer logs on the the top once the cycle begins, I find that rather annoying. I have to go up and down to do laundry, as it is in the basement. If I go down to early then I have to wait to get into the machine until it comes to a complete stop. That ringer thing...looks difficult. builds muscle no? I won't complain to much about my locktight lid.... :)

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  17. The tulips are gorgeous. I did not have a wringer washer after marriage, but we had one at home so I have used one quite a bit. I hate my washer now...and woukdcalmostvpreferva wringer.

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  18. I remember a wringer washer from my childhood. We must have had one for a littl while. My daughter has a fancy new washer that she's had problems with from the start as well. It won't spin things without getting an uneven load signal. Nothing seems to help, so she sits on it! She's looking forward to replacing it. Yes, I guess we shouldn't complain too loudly. We've got it pretty easy, haven't we? No trips to the river to scrub things on a rock, ha ha.

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  19. Your tulips (and your DIL's) are beautiful. I think squirrels got my bulbs this year, for I had few of them come up. I think I'll do just pots of them in the fall, and cover them with mesh. I used a wringer washer for a short time, and I remember my mother using one, too. We have it so much easier now.

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  20. Your tulips are so pretty! So many lovely colors and combinations.
    I loved my old wringer. It was so efficient. I could rinse the last load and hang it up while the new load washed. Now I have a HE beast that takes all day to do the laundry. Not sure the trade-off is so good. But that's progress. I surely do like a dryer for the permanent press fabrics, tho. Living here in wildfire territory, a clothesline would mean smoky sheets and towels, so I guess one change demands another.

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  21. Some of my happiest memories are helping Mom on laundry day. It was my job to catch the clothes when they came through the wringer so they didn't wrap back around it. I love tulips and have a few that come back year after year. Yours are beautiful!

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