Unraveled Wednesday 1/24/24

 Good Morning Everyone!

Well, the big thaw is happening.  It was above freezing all night and I could hear EVERYTHING dripping (thankfully outside and not inside).  When I let Mabel out at 5 a.m. I saw an Amazon box on my back patio!  Yesterday (late afternoon) I had realized I was out of Cafe du Monde coffee, so I ordered several cans.  The confirmation email told me it would be delivered today between 4 a.m. and 8 a.m.  They were not kidding!!

It's Wednesday and I will be going back to the office today.  I swear I am busier at work than I have been in the past 4 years!!  Today I am meeting with Heather - one of the people who will be taking over some of my responsibilities.  We will do a bit of training and hopefully I will be out of there before lunch time.  Yesterday I was also able to finally secure meeting space (and hotel rooms) for Kevin's upcoming meeting in Georgia.  The first two hotels I called were booked solid for meeting space the last week in February which I found surprising and the one I finally found is pretty pricey in my opinion.  Overnight rooms are $239 (nothing fancy, just a regular Hilton) and the charge for the meeting space is over $1,000 for the day plus a guaranteed minimum of at least $60 per person for food.  Back in the day (pre-pandemic) I never agreed to pay for meeting room space - that was always waived.  Times have changed!

Anyway, it is Wednesday which means it's time to link up with Kat and her Merry Band of Unravelers for Unraveled Wednesday.  Let's talk knitting!

I had mentioned last week my woes with the Farmer's Daughter Sock Squad yarn that arrived.  First I couldn't do a twisted rib for the cuff to save my life.  Then I couldn't do a cable pattern for a sock.  Finally it is all coming together.  I sketched out (in Excel) what I wanted and voila!

A basic plain vanilla sock (the yarn spoke and I listened) with a row of crescent moons just under the cuff.  The crescent moons are knit using the mini skein that came with the main skein.  

A little closer view of the crescent moons - my hand is in the cuff stretching it out a bit.  I plan to use the mini skein for the toes of the socks as well.  I have roughly 20 more rows to go before the heel flap.  My plan was to get there by today...or even past the flap and heel turn, but I seem to have spent more time stitching than knitting this past week.  It's all good - making is making!

Reading is still slow for me.  I'm sure it will pick up again once I'm no longer working.  In the meantime, I am still listening to "The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store" and still reading "George:  A Magpie Memoir."  Fletch and I finally finished listening to "Fox and I."  So glad that one is over!

At Christmas, Fletch picked up THIS BOOK for me and we have decided to read this after dinner.  It is great so far!  We are roughly 50 pages in and thoroughly enjoying it.

Time for me to get moving and pour a second cup of coffee, dry my hair and figure out what to wear for my trek to the office.  I hope everyone has a wonderful Wednesday!