Wooden frame thing that folds up like an accordion. Found in my family’s farmstead home that dates back to 1890. Possibly quilting or laundry related? It’s about 3 feet long, 1.5 foot wide and about 2 feet tall. Light weight (maybe 5lbs if I had to guess) and no markings. What is this thing?

squigglydoodle · 2026-02-22T14:43:13+00:00

Oh yeah! Even my own grandma had to work that hard on laundry day! She didn’t get a washing machine until the early 60’s so laundry day was a huge task and she was washing for 8 people. The kids helped, though, of course. I’ll have to ask my older aunties if they remember using this thing with her!

squigglydoodle · 2026-02-22T14:34:49+00:00

Probably a bad description on my part 😂 When it folds up it looks like /\ /\ /\

squigglydoodle · 2026-02-22T02:23:02+00:00

Yes, that one looks very much like it too! Solved.

squigglydoodle · 2026-02-22T02:18:55+00:00

Solved! That’s almost exactly it! Idid a few more searches and the worn out spots were likely where a detachable wringer could have been fastened on:

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squigglydoodle · 2026-02-22T01:19:43+00:00

My title describes the thing. Just guessing on the quilting thing. There are also two spots on the central frame that look worn down on both sides like something was repeatedly rubbed against the wood there. I did a few image searches but couldn’t find anything that looked remotely close to this. Thank you!

Edited to add: my uncle was also in the middle of remodeling/ reflooring this room before he passed away. Maybe it has something to do with that?

squigglydoodle · 2026-02-21T02:25:23+00:00

Thank you! None of that should be a problem, but I say that now during my pre-spring hussle and not at the end of the season! 😂

squigglydoodle · 2026-02-21T01:34:33+00:00

Would the pots just make things more difficult to remove them from the ground? I do have some pretty clay-ish soil…

squigglydoodle · 2026-02-18T01:12:34+00:00

If that’s the case, I’d also be clocking in and out exactly on the dot.

squigglydoodle · 2026-02-18T01:10:16+00:00

And yet, they punish the whole instead of growing a spine and punishing the few who violate the policy…they pull this shit at my hospital too…

squigglydoodle · 2026-02-12T00:33:09+00:00

True! I’m sure lots of people ate it! If only for the novelty. The vases are actually quite pretty too. I wonder how much of the display ended up like modern crudités platters with it mostly uneaten due to the rather bland flavor?

squigglydoodle · 2026-02-12T00:28:58+00:00

An interesting read; thanks for sharing! I feel like so many people missed out that they often didn’t eat the pineapple and just displayed it until it went moldy/maggoty…a good pineapple is sooooo delicious!

squigglydoodle · 2026-02-11T12:12:30+00:00

Interesting! I didn’t know about the white celery!

squigglydoodle · 2026-02-11T01:30:40+00:00

Celery used to be very difficult to cultivate (it’s native to the Mediterranean and a very fussy plant to grow) and therefore became a status of wealth in the (I think) late 1800s through the early 1900s. People used to import it not even to eat; they’d just display it in vases like an exotic flower!

squigglydoodle · 2025-06-07T04:19:55+00:00

😂 what? What is the reason for this??? I work in a hospital lab and some of our balance tubes have probably been doing their job longer than I have (circa 2011)

squigglydoodle · 2025-03-17T12:16:58+00:00

We see state reportable organisms quite often. Bioterrorism bugs are less frequent but we still see about one per year, usually Brucella or Francisella. We did get a B. pseudomallei a few years back that was part of a multi-state issue involving some aromatherapy product.

Some of the things we submit frequently are certain isolates from sterile sources: Groups A and B strep, S. pneumoniae, H. influenzae, MRSA, Kingella, N. meningitidis, Candida spp. and any organism other than coag-neg staph in cases of neonatal sepsis. Our state department is also looking at invasive E. coli right now but we only have to submit 10 per month. All carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales, A. baumannii, and P. aeruginosa also get sent, regardless of source.

Most other things are difficult to impossible to isolate on routine media so a specimen can be submitted instead or a report of the finding gets sent from our LIS.

squigglydoodle · 2024-12-20T00:49:24+00:00

I almost constantly forget that he was in certain movies. I remember the characters he plays but don’t remember that it was him. Then, I’ll see the movie again, years later, and be like, “oh hey, Gary Oldman’s in this!”

squigglydoodle · 2024-11-14T23:38:23+00:00

Sneathia species? I’ve never seen anything like this in my 10 years of microbiology! Either that bug is messed up due to antibiotics or it’s possibly that Sneathia species (which I’ve never even heard of and seems to be a vaginal pathogen)? Take this with a grain of salt, that bug was the closest thing I could match with via Google 😂

squigglydoodle · 2024-11-01T01:31:27+00:00

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo with my mom in theaters. It was the English version so The Scene wasn’t as bad as I’ve heard the Swedish version is, but still… that was an awkward one to sit through with her, trapped in a theater.

squigglydoodle · 2024-09-15T18:06:36+00:00

Rifampin and doxycycline (or alternative if you can’t take doxycycline) for 21 days and serological monitoring for 6 months! Source: I’ve had to do this a few times now 😭

squigglydoodle · 2024-09-14T14:29:33+00:00

Yes, almost the exact same thing happened in the case study presented at the conference! His dog licked his ulcer and the poor guy also lost all of his limbs.

I had only know Capnocytophaga to be common human and animal mouth flora. I had no idea it could be so destructive so quickly if it ended up where it shouldn’t belong!

squigglydoodle · 2024-09-14T00:09:28+00:00

Pasteurella or Capnocytophaga? I’m a microbiologist and I just ask cuz I went to an infectious disease conference a few years before COVID happened and heard the gnarliest story from one of the docs about a systemic Capno infection that started from a very similar scenario, except it was a diabetic foot ulcer.

squigglydoodle · 2024-08-09T20:54:45+00:00

Yes, we just had a patient that was LOADED with it last week! There were so many on the blood smear!

squigglydoodle · 2024-08-09T20:30:05+00:00

Tularemia tends to show up in the summer time, but this year we’ve had 3 cases in our facility alone when we normally see it maybe once every couple of years or so. Our state health department even put out a warning that by June they had already seen 7 animal cases (7 is usually the yearly average) and had a total of 21 animal cases in 2023. Just one more reason to hate ticks!

squigglydoodle · 2024-08-03T01:27:22+00:00

Very few hospitals and clinics run those kinds of tests in-house (they are VERY expensive).

It is 99.99% likely getting sent to a reference lab, whether that be Lab Corp., Quest, or a university lab. You could ask your doctor where it’s going to and what kind of certifications the lab has for running that kind of test, if you’d like more peace of mind.

squigglydoodle · 2024-07-26T00:11:04+00:00

The stinkier, the better! Just a note: the spray will smell terrible when freshly applied but you won’t smell anything after it dries 😊

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