Four Sheets to the Wind
Oh how I miss my clothesline. "But wait" you say, "isn't that a clothesline in the photo above?" Well, yes those are my sheets and they are hanging on some line, but to me that's a wannabe clothesline. It's an umbrella clothesline. A real clothesline stretches from your back door to a big high pole on your back fence, secured at each end by a metal pulley . The majority of a real clothes line is high above the ground , where the wind blows everything dry in no time. When you take your clothes out of the washing machine before you use a real clothesline, you put the small things on the bottom of the laundry basket, and the big things on top, because the big things like sheets, are first on the line. Wet clothes are then picked out of your basket one by one and shaken with a brisk thwap that scares out the wrinkles. They are then stretched across the line and secured with wooden pegs . They stutter across the sky as you push t...