hung out to dry
At our cottage in PEI, we have a clothesline. Here’s a shot of it in the morning…
And here’s a shot of it in the evening…
The wind is always blowing on that wee little island and the lawns are big and flat making for perfect ‘clothesline country’.
I have a book at the cottage that’s all about the clothesline through time…
There’s actually some interesting trivia.
Clotheslines and clothespins came along in the early 1800’s when the idea for using rope to hang clothes was borrowed by an inventive housewife from her seafaring husband. Maybe in PEI, who knows? 
Shortly after came clothespins with the push kind coming first…
…and then the spring or clip kind was patented in 1832.
Now of course we have the choice between wood and plastic pins…I like them both…
It’s fun to imagine the changes in clotheslines - where they’ve been hung, and what’s been hung on them - over the past 200 years….
Farm denims and cotton bedding…
50’s aprons and teatowels…
Smirfs, Barney’s and Babybops…
Not to mention the places they’ve been hung…
All over the world…
City and country…
In different styles, like the umbrella…
The t-post…
And if you think you don’t have the posts for it, you can always be inventive like this creative sole who used a shepherd’s hook from the garden store.
Hanging clothes on the line just feels good.
Plain and simple.
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