Monthly Archives: July 2023

A rookie mistake

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I’m an experienced knitter, or maybe I should say that I’ve been knitting for a long time. My grandmother taught me how to knit when I was a kid.

I recently ordered some cotton blend yarn online to make socks for my sister-in-law. Other than it being a bit splitty (yes, Grammarly, it is a real word in the knitting world) it’s been a nice yarn to work with.

Well into the second sock and I discovered something that I should have noticed before I even began.

This shouldn’t have happened.

Can’t see it? Try this one.

Can you see it now?

Two different dye lots. If I had been more observant when I received the yarn and looked closer at the tags, I would have just started the second sock with the other dye lot rather than find out the hard way that they weren’t the same.

What would you do?

(A) Continue as if nothing is wrong? Or

(B) Restart the second sock with the other dye lot because no one will notice the slight change in the color between the two socks?

P.S. My sister is having surgery today. Will you say a little prayer for her safe and speedy recovery? Thanks. ❤️

Cutting the cord

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Well, we did it. We cut the cord to our landline and only have our cell phones for calls.

We cut the TV cable cord years ago and have been just fine without that squawk box. Quite frankly (IMHO) there wasn’t much on TV worth watching. We stream what we want to watch and can back up, pause, stop, and forward as we please.

Of course, we still have internet. That is something we would have a hard time doing without.

So many people have either used their cell phones forever and never had a landline at all or gotten rid of the landline in favor of a cell phone. 99% of our landline calls were telemarketers anyway.

Do you use a landline, cell phone, or both?