Week 51 - Perfect Retirement Week

It was a great week full of friends, getting things done and lots of knitting.

I started the week going to a program at the lake about winter feeding of backyard birds. It was interesting and I even won a prize - a suet cake and feeder. I rushed home because Windstream was due to come and if you're not there, they charge you $50 for a missed appointment. They did come but couldn't fix it so had to put in a service order for someone to check the line beyond my house. They'd be coming Tuesday so it was a good thing it was only my landline that was toast. I made some chocolate cookies with pastel mint chips for knitting and to give to friends. Delish!

Windstream did fix it Tuesday morning and after they were done, I ran my Wahoo errands. I had to pick up money at the library and stupidly bought a box of Christmas stuff at the bag sale. Like I needed more Christmas stuff. I did get every single candle they had, taking them out of the candle holders and leaving the holders there. After making the deposit at the bank, I went to the thrift shop and Warehouse so was gone for quite awhile. I made a cup of tea then went to the eye doctor before supper. I call that a good day.

Wednesday was a fun day with lunch at Honest Abe's with my work friends. I gave them all socks and cookies and they seemed to like them. Since I was in town, of course I did some thrifting and scored 2 lots of sock yarn. Then I stopped at Anne's and left loaded up with cookies, scones and snack mix. Yarn and treats. Merry Christmas to me! The Survivor finale rounded out another good day.

Thursday was another good day of an entirely different kind. It was almost 60 degrees so I went outside to the garden. I keep thinking I've done the last thing but I planted some garlic, which is a first for me and it might be too late but not much to lose since I just planted cloves from super market garlic. I then took the morning glory vines out of the trash, carefully put them into a big Ikea bag so as not to trash my newly vacuumed and ran them to the burn pile, getting back just in time for my favorite knitting YouTubers - the Grocery Girls. I made a nice supper of scalloped potatoes and ham and stashed a bunch of yarn on Ravelry. See? Another good day.

After the one warm day, it turned pretty chilly so I hunkered down for the rest of the week. I got a bunch of flex receipts entered, changed litter boxes, did some cleaning and got my laundry done, which was enough to not feel guilty about the serious relaxation I enjoyed the rest of the time. I chatted with friends who were on their last day of work before break and spent lots of time reading in the sun, moving from the front room to my desk after the sun went down to finish Death at the Sign of the Rook, which is the newest Jackson Brody book but not my favorite. There was lots of knitting too, of course, including a charity hat to drop in Omaha on Monday and I finished my monthly challenge socks, which I think are beautiful. I was also opening my advent sock yarn everyday with the last one on Sunday. And I organized all my unfinished sock projects so I could finish a few before casting on more. That's the plan anyway.

As far as I'm concerned, this was a perfect week. I got stuff done, had some fun with friends, found sock yarn while thrifting and had plenty of time to relax and read in the sun. Sign me up for more weeks like this please. Just a few more days until Christmas too. Life is good.