" Joe's wife "worked with the washtub and the scrubbing brush when such work could be found.

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She made meat loaf in a washtub, working loaf bread into the meat, onions and spices with her hands.

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Occasionally he spotted an eroding baler or a rusting washtub in a tangle of overgrowing poison ivy, crabgrass, and morning glory.

NEWYORKER: Waiting