Friday, March 26, 2010

#84 of 365 - Really Happy Feet


I have been missing ONE of this pair of fraternal socks nearly all winter. I was sad about that and worrit that it had fallen behind the stacked washer and dryer when I used the top of the stack to lay out the drying sock collection back in December. The laundry set is in an alcove and therefore it's inaccessible by little ole me, as there is NO way I can move them out by me own self and Erin's is often too broken to ask for her help. Normally, I lay the collection out on a towel on the floor and let them dry there. However, when this one went missing, Erin's young man, Guy was here from the UK and my Da was also in town to meet him. It was the only place I could think of that was absolutely out of the way of anything. We have a teeny tiny townhouse and between Erin and I, we have TOO much stuff...

So, imagine if you would, both my dismay and delight when the washer and the dryer failed yesterday and I needed to dump out my laundry basket so Erin could cart a very wet load of laundry to the laundromat to get it dried. In the upending of my deep laundry basket, the missing sock miraculously appeared. Since we are having snow, yet again, my feet are glad of the wash and wear warmth of my Encore Scrap Socks. Also in the picture, my oldest pair of clogs, which I will be very unhappy to see go when they finally shuffle off this mortal coil, as it were. I am thinking that they are going on their 25th year of service. So, I certainly have gotten my money's worth, don't ya think? I just spent $20.00 on repairing them, so who knows, maybe I'll another 25 years out of them, if I live that long?

3 comments:

Lynx said...

But it's such WONDERFUL stuff, Leslie! Seriously, your place feels like a real home (unlike my "friend's" that we had come from that night...). You have The Aura there. I was impressed, grateful, and tickled pink all at once.

Glad you found your orphan sock... yet another reason I prefer to go barefoot whenever possible. At one time I had collected all the single socks in the house with the intention of chopping them into quilt batting. Never happened. But I did manage to get rid of ---many-- old maids... Would have prefered to recycle them, but was happy to settle for having --so many-- dead socks gone and away. (all store bought, I should add: this was a few years ago before I took up the dpns!)

Anne Huskey-Lockard said...

Oh thse are the socks I love!!! So glad you got the mate back!
I don't blame you putting repair money into good clogs; my first Clarks were the best---lasted YEARS. The new ones don;t fit the same and start to break soon. Not sure what to put on my feet when I go out.....
Did I tell you I got some rain boots with leopard print??? :D Thought of you!

XXOO!!
Anne

g-girl said...

whew, thank goodness you found the mate. i love those socks! I would've been heartbroken myelf if one sock went missing. wow, 25 years old??? they look brand new!