Friday, August 7, 2009

Morning rain line

It's raining this morning and I got some photos I like of the clothes line in the rain. It was shining and looked like the clothes pins were holding up rain drops, like something celestial was washing out their dew drops. I liked this one the best, I didn't put that foggy light in around the pins, it was just there. I had my silk bathrobe on and the coffee was brewing and Avery was rubbing his fuzzy self against my legs, it was all very pleasant..and then..
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My Mother came out her door, I swear she lurks in her house waiting for me to go outside, and she looked at all the water in the yard and the mist still spitting and brilliantly came to a conclusion. "It rained, huu?" I swear, I so need to be alone for the first hour after I get up that in my head I said "No, you fucking idiot, I was up all night throwing buckets of water at the whole neighborhood." I settled for "yup." I thought maybe she'd get the hint, but, no. She started in on me about what was I doing out there and your pants will get wet and have you seen Bonnie and Cleo and Tippy? She said why in god green earth would anybody want a picture of a clothes line, wasn't that crazy, and she had to cook Ruth an egg and that was hard on her, it stressed her, but, Ruth and Aunt Juanita won a thousand dollars at the casino yesterday and wasn't that grand? It's always a thousand dollars with Juanita, I think maybe decades ago that was a fortune and now she always gets a thousand dollars everytime she gambles or sells an old house or writes a book or sells a movie script. It's also convenient that when she has to put her money where her lies are, she can hand us kids all our share, which is never much. She has all her bullshit covered. And she has to hand out "our share" even though we all tell her we don't want it, because that way she looks like the important one to the Sisters. Money talks in our family, it's the only thing that's important to them and they think the rest of us are the same way. You can't tell them any different. So I expect I will be getting a call to come get my share soon, which also means I am supposed to drive her ugly lying old toothless ass somewhere out of town. I wish they'd just stop gambling, but, they say it's in our blood. Our Cherokee blood, which is insulting to American Indians, in my opinon.
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I came inside and shut the door on Mom as she was still talking. She says someday I'll be sorry for doing things like that, but, I highly doubt it. By the way, I could fix that droop in the clothes line, but, Mom is only 4'10'' tall. So that's why it's like that. Why I am like this is up for debate.

21 comments:

Anonymous said...

I liked this post. It's a nice clothesline pic. I used to love to run thru the sheets when my mom would hang them out on all the lines and it was so clean & sunny to smell the sheets and have them blow against my face & billow out to my fingertips. Mmmmm...remember? Yea, you remember! We all do. I love clotheslines! Ever had anything embarrassing hanging out on one? Did your mom hang out anything that embarrassed you? Gawd, my mom did! Used to be tacky to have one, they are coming back!
Rox

Anonymous said...

I was driving around with my Dad a while back, when the truck we were in got a flat tire. He doesn't move well due to a stroke, but he gets around.

I told him that I would take care of it, and to wait a minute while I got the spare. He responded " I got to piss", and I said " Piss wherever you'd like".

I set the tire down and went back to get the tools. When I returned to the truck he was pissing on the tire smiling and said "wherever I'd like, huh?". I know how you feel Pat.

jarhead

Anonymous said...

I like the post DD.

LMBO Jarhead!

Anonymous said...

I was just reminded by your post that I need to do the laundry and hang it up to dry since its a sunny day.

Dirty Disher said...

Gowd, Jarhead, are we realated? Sheesh.

And yeah, Rox, underwear on the clothes line still embrarasses me..I wash sheets and hang them on the outside lines with panites on the middle line. LOL. We had such gross underwear when we were kids, I have a real thing about it now. I buy new ones all the time and throw away any even slightly raggedy ones.

Anonymous said...

Isn't "tacky" just a funny word? It's so retro, old ladies said it. What the he** does it mean anyways? I know what it means, I 'spose. I know what I said about clotheslines being "tacky" but are not so much now. It's just a funny word and I can't believe I still use it. Wow, DD, period underwear was the worst. What Clorox didnt take out the sun would, right? Nope! I know, I know! I threw them away too. It's so bad when you dont have all that many underwear anyways! Mine were from the dimestore or SS Kresge's (which went on to become K Mart). Once I even had bikini's for days of the week. When my bff told me that it wasn't cool to wear them on the matching day, I totally rebelled and started wearing Saturday on Monday etc. I was such a badass! :(

Jarhead. You are so tacky!

Rox

Anonymous said...

I love that picture....that's one I'd like to have framed on my dresser. :) Just something about it.

Daphne

Coyote said...

I love the pic, too, Pat. What made the reflection?--is there something shiny that bounced the flash back? I'd love to see it in black and white, too.

The clothespins almost look like they are alive.

Anonymous said...

what a very uplifting and peaceful picture Pat. How the rays shine upon the pins just are so "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

your mom is a riot and your responses although you don't say many to her but are in your mind and say to us are hillarious.

We all have people in our lives that seem to push us and your mom is yours. lol

crystal

PS - I have sent you 2 emails - just checking cuz I know you weren't getting them at 1 time.

Alanna Smithee said...

That's seriously a great picture.

So you have pixie mom too. Mine's 4'11" and I always forget she can't reach things or walk as fast. I'm 5'7" which is a giant to her. I finally bought her this chartreuse sun visor to wear when we go to festivals or anywhere outdoors with a lot of people. It makes her easy to spot in a crowd.

Anonymous said...

I so need to be alone for the first hour after I get up that in my head I said "No, you fucking idiot, I was up all night throwing buckets of water at the whole neighborhood."

that is so friggin funny...

Coyote said...

I finally bought her this chartreuse sun visor to wear when we go to festivals or anywhere outdoors with a lot of people. It makes her easy to spot in a crowd.

August 7, 2009 2:37:00 PM GST

So, Pat will ask..."Do they sell those in invisible?"

Unknown said...

(the glowing effect is nothing else but fog in the camera lens...yeah fog gets in there!)



I looooove the pic!!! Did you really spend the night throwing water all over the neighborhood? LOL!

Dirty Disher said...

Yeah, I did. And I spent the day running her ass around to the store while she bitched that my car is too hot.

Dirty Disher said...

And I know fog gets in there, it's fog. I was just saying I didn't put it in with photoshop. It looks like a PS ligt effect, but, it's natural.

TVsnark said...

George on Seinfeld did a whole routine that could have been me.

He says he has so much underwear that he never has to do laundry. At one point in my life I could go 3 months without doing laundry (I guess that's about 90 pairs). Bleaching them makes them fall apart faster.

ALSO, I'm 47 years old. Why am I still having period accidents?????

Sorry for the men reading this.

Rox, You are a dare devil.

lisa k said...

That pic is really good. It would look great framed. I always love reading your mom stories.

Dirty Disher said...

Gawd, period pantries are the worst. They should just be thrown out now that we have the dollar store.

Faerie♥Kat said...

Is it possible to hang thong panties on a clothesline? I'm sure it's not advisable, but I'd hang a pair right where your Mom could see them if I were you (I'm kinda snarky that way).

Don't you just love how the English call big panties "knickers?"

I adore the pixiefied clothes pins; another magical moment caught forever.

♥Kat

Dirty Disher said...

I like the word "knickers" too. Mom wouldn't care if I had a thong. I might hang a pair of mens briefs out there though. That'd fuck with her head.

Matilda said...

Love the pic. Speaking of embarrassing.... my mom would hang out her huge "brassieres" and the unending and stained little cotton square "drip clothes" for those in between times when she leaked. I remember how she'd whip out one of those bad boys at family get togethers and not think anything of it. Many years later when I had my first born I considered breast feeding but grew impatient with the process and started buying formula. The clothesline pic brought back many memories!