I took my mom to the airport yesterday and thereby ended a perfectly lovely visit and vacation. After sitting in the café at the airport with a cup of coffee and then seeing her through security, a forced return to my normal life commenced..
The advantage of being at the airport early was that I also was able to go to Sam’s Club early and beat the teaming hordes. Shopping at the giant warehouse store is certainly easier when I can get in early during the corporate member only hours (not very likely most of the time) or when I think to pre-order on line so my purchases are ready for pickup and I just have to swoop in and claim them (not this time). The household was low on certain necessary paper products as well as G’s supply of Hershey’s Nuggets, which he downs every evening by the handful. Without a store like Sam’s I sometimes think we would have to mortgage our house for the chocolate bill.
I also managed to get to the gym for my first full-scale workout of the year and a thorough and exhausting one it was at that. By the time I got home hauling piles of work that had been neglected at the office I was quite exhausted and had energy to do nothing other than sit quietly in the house and enjoy the peace and tranquility of having the place back to myself, as long as I did not look at the generalized clutter surrounding me.
I did manage to pick up a skein of yarn that I think might work for finishing off Tesla, although I was only capable of staring dumbly at her last night.
Sharfik finally dried, two days after being wet down and laid out to block. Today I will attach the fringes, weave in the ends, and get the scarf ready for the Wise Men to put in G’s boot when they come by later tonight.
Last, but not least, I knit the foot of the second carnival sock:
Since I will knit the heel later, the sock will remain in tube form from this point on, until I am ready to take out the waste yarn and add the heel. As I cannot contort my foot into perfect tube shape, the next photos will have to be upon completion.