What a find. Hard to imagine the situation in which a woman carved clothespins from select tree branches and then wrapped some scrap metal around the ends so they wouldn’t split entirely. Then, THEN, she hollowed out a larger branch and covered one end in a piece of leather to hold her FOUR clothespins. Precious indeed. How I wish I knew the history of these pins.

Ah, it’s the little things in life …

The obvious, the humble,

The all-too-often overlooked.

Photo by Michael Jastremski / Wikimedia

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