That's one of the projects I have for DH to do.

Put up a clothes line!

I miss airing out all of my quilts!

That's something I've always wondered about drying things outside - don't they get covered in pollen, dust and debris, etc?

I guess it depends on where you live and the time of year. I love when I could hang things out. Smells really good.

Sue

Lucky you, your clothes will smell wonderfully fresh! We always hung our laundry outdoors when I was a child and even when bringing them indoors, seemingly completely frozen, when thawed they were already damp rather than soaking wet. For sure a way to bring some fresh air indoors.

I need a clothes line here, but the pine tree pollen would make drying outside impossible right now. It is all over everything.

It's still cold here in Ontario. -3°C. It was -8 when I first hung them out, so no sign of any pollen.

The pollen doesn't bother me, they don't get coated in dust etc, and I hang them out all summer.

I always wonder, when they freeze, do they dry?

If you had pollen on the scale we have around the south you might think differently. Currently everything is covered in the little worm looking debris from the oak trees and now the pine trees are dumping loads of yellow clouds of pollen that sheets every single thing in thick yellow grossness. And all of these stick like glue!

I love the smell of line dried laundry. Unfortunately, I can't do it anymore. The allergies have taken over my life. Allllllll that stuff in the air gets on the clothes, sheets etc. then is in the house and on me.

My sinuses are raging right now. My allergists office called last week, said we will be giving shots on Tues. (this past Tues.) til 4:30 then our office will be closed til futher notice. Thank God I got my shots on Tues. or I may have ended up in the hospital, which I won't do, unless of course I am in BIG trouble.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/watch-pine-tree-unleashes-huge-fluffy-pollen-cloud-180969048/

when they freeze, do they dry?

Yes, it's called sublimation when water or another substance can go from a solid state (ice) to gas without passing through the liquid state.

I love hanging my clothes out! I don't usually do that on a high wind / dust storm day.