Do you dry your laundry on a clothes line???

Usd to--back when my nuclear fam lived WAY in the country, didn't own a reliable dryer, and nobody particularly cared either way.

But when most of the clan moved to a McMansion, they had to sign an "appearance clause." (Read: Snotty Neighborhoods Think Clotheslines Are Unsightly.)

In my photo heap, somewhere, is an aireal snapshot that was taken of our old house on an ordinary day, about 20 years ago. IIRC, some entrepeneur photographer who knew a chopper pilot was peddling similar pics to all the houses in that area.

In the still, the clothesline was strung across the back yard, and a couple of my grandmother's handmade quilts are drying on it.

(Still get a little tight-chested whenever I unearth that photo.)

Slán,

~Fionn

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