{"id":13546,"date":"2020-09-23T20:24:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T19:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=13546"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:35:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:35:03","slug":"daily_2079_-_aged_darning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/09\/23\/daily_2079_-_aged_darning\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2079 – aged darning"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nSometimes a day goes by and fades into evening and I realize I haven’t done a single photo-worthy thing. I have sat at my desk, behind my computer. I have worked out (yes!) and read a bit of the Economist while eating lunch. I have cooked and eaten dinner. That’s it.<\/p>\n

In the evening it is dark outside and I cannot take photos of anything in the garden. It is dark inside as well, and the rest of the family are all sitting in their dim corners of the house.<\/p>\n

Occasionally this is enough to give me a gentle kick and make me do something physical that I can take a photo of. Which is backwards in a way – doing things just so I get a photo – but since these are things that I’ve been wanting to do anyway and simply procrastinating about, it’s not so backwards after all. The photo is just an odd kind of motivational carrot.<\/p>\n

So this evening I darned a hole in a sock that has been waiting for my attention for a week or so.<\/p>\n

It is sock darning season, because it is sock wearing season. The house usually starts getting cold enough for socks in the middle of the day around mid-September.<\/p>\n

This fresh darning looks crisp and smart compared to the ones I did half a year ago. Almost too crisp, in fact: it doesn’t blend in. The older ones have become slightly felted by wear (even though the darning yarn is a wool mix rather than pure wool) and look a lot more cosy and natural.<\/p>\n

It’s nearly always the spot under the big toe that wears out first on my indoor socks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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