I finished this pair last evening after having done absolutely NO knitting for six days. I came down with a norovirus a week ago – vomiting, diarrhea – which lasted four days and then I was too lethargic to do anything but binge watch a TV series on Britbox – Waking The Dead. I finally picked up the sock again (the second sock just needed a toe), finished it, then put stitches on for a new pair.

That’s how it goes – no empty needles in my apartment. Otherwise, how would I rationalize evenings watching TV? I can knit through just about any genre, except tennis! I can’t keep track of the shots and miss the best rallies if I don’t keep my eyes on the screen. I was delighted Sinner defeated Djokovic in the Autralian Open semi-final and then went on to win the tournament Sunday. It’ll be very interesting tennis over the next few years with Sinner and Alcaraz competing – they’re both such young, yet wonderful athletes. Great variety to their games (not just slugging it out from the baseline – no fun watching that). I’m looking forward to the unfolding tennis season this year – lots of great matches to come.

Back to the socks, I realized after the first sock I was probably going to put this pair in my sock drawer. Now that they’re finished, that’s where they’re going. I was even going to put them on this morning but didn’t because they’d have been too loose inside my boots. In the end I haven’t gone out in the storm, I worked on the current quilt (more on that in the next post).