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“Both of your socks should always be the same color, Or they should at least both be fairly dark”

After the rain stopped last night, the temperature dropped just enough to give us a dusting of snow which is melting now. It’s only 34°, but the wind is gone and the sun is shining. Yesterday, the wind gusts reached as high as 50 MPH but felled none of my pine trees.

Not much going on today. I need to fill the bird feeders and do a wash, and I have the new Patricia Cornwell so that’s a possibility. Yup, lounging and reading are just perfect for the day.

I have lost my muse again and just can’t access the back memory drawers. The only things that came to mind were socks with lace at the top. No, I don’t wear them anymore, but I did at one time, when I was very young. Right now I have two socks with no partners. They took the same route as all the other socks so I have no idea what happened. I think they may be hidden in the corners of some tight fitting bottom sheets. That’s happened before. Speaking of fitted bottom sheets, I just never fold mine well with or without a hidden sock. I try corner to corner and end up with a mess which I hide on the bottom of the sheets in the linen closet. I went looking on youtube for some help and found a great way to fold one if I have lots of time. It had to do with inverting cornets, folding them and then smoothing the creases, but I figure life is too short to spend so much time on a sheet so I’m stuck with blobs which might be hiding socks. They’ll reappear at some time. I’m not worried. Speaking of socks, I hate to throw any away. Many of mine have holes. My friend Clare and my sister Moe have been giving me socks for Christmas, but I just add them to the sock pile. When I have to fold over the tops of the sock to keep the toes inside, I break down and toss the pair or I add them to the dust rags. Socks make great dust bags, even better than the cuffs of my sweatshirts.

Okay, I’m done. If I keep going, I’ll fill page after page and I have that wash waiting.

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15 Comments on ““Both of your socks should always be the same color, Or they should at least both be fairly dark””

  1. Bob's avatar Bob Says:

    February 26, 2011 at 12:19 pm

    Some days even your feet don’t match.

  2. Christer.'s avatar olof1 Says:

    February 26, 2011 at 12:24 pm

    I´m pretty convinced that those lost socks travels in to a parallel universe. Somewhere in that universe the find sock in their washing and wonders where from they come and only one kind every time. I guess that they by now have small mountains with unmatched socks there 🙂 🙂 🙂

    Around 35F here today and it has been a day without any motivation at all. Rather nice to be honest 🙂

    Have a great day now!
    Christer.

  3. Caryn's avatar Caryn Says:

    February 26, 2011 at 12:46 pm

    Hi Kat,
    Martha Stewart had a system for folding fitted sheets but the only thing I can remember about it is that Martha Stewart had a system for folding fitted sheets. I do pretty much what you do. I know my socks are not in the pockets though. My socks are under the bed. I wear socks to bed in cold weather but then my feet get warm and I kick the socks off. The socks migrate out from under the bedclothes and crawl under the foot of the bed where they stay until I don’t have any more clean socks. They get rounded up and put in a net bag to be washed and dried. I knit my own socks and do not want them escaping through the portal to the alternate universe.

    • katry's avatar katry Says:

      February 26, 2011 at 7:02 pm

      Caryn,
      Martha Stewart would have one though I bet she doesn’t do her own laundry.

      I’m impressed with your knitting your own socks. I wouldn’t want to lose them either in any universe.

      Sometimes I wear socks to bed while other times my feet are warm enough. When I wake up wearing one and not the other, the missing one is usually hiding at the foot of the bed.

  4. zoey & me's avatar zoey & me Says:

    February 26, 2011 at 6:03 pm

    I never throw torn socks away. I use them to wax my car. They are really soft and the perfect size.

    • katry's avatar katry Says:

      February 26, 2011 at 8:05 pm

      Minicapt,
      I had seen the guy to the folding but thought he made it way too complicated. The last lady cheated a bit and used a small sheet. I liked one and three-I guess I’ll have to practice a bit. It does look easy.

      • Caryn's avatar Caryn Says:

        February 27, 2011 at 8:15 am

        This is how you do it. Take the sheets off the bed, wash and dry them, put them back on the bed. No folding required. 🙂

  6. Kat's avatar Kat Says:

    February 27, 2011 at 11:34 am

    Hi Caryn,
    That is a perfect solution!


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