Monday, August 11, 2025

It's time to hang out the laundry...

With the unrelenting heat, it seemed like a good idea to put my wet laundry outside instead of running the drier.

It occurred to me that this is the first time since June 1986 when I left Ghana that my laundry has been hung outside to dry.

Laundry hanging on two clotheslines in a courtyard with palm leaves on trees outside the wall and a large bunch of bananas leaning against the wall
1984 - My housemate Ampofu's laundry hanging in the courtyard of our staff bungalow at Okuapemman Secondary School in Ghana, West Africa.
Golf shirts, underpants and a handkerchief hung on a rack next to a yellow solaire chair and a leafy plant.

2025 - My laundry hung on the patio of my home in Ottawa, Ontario.

You might notice that in neither set of outside laundry are there any socks. 

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous8/11/2025 3:48 pm

    Who took your socks? Pesky Squirrels?

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  2. David Scrimshaw8/12/2025 11:10 am

    Heather, we do indeed have pesky squirrels here, but I never saw a squirrel in Akropong.

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