If you recall I had a problem with a ChaioGoo knitting needle. My local yarn store owner let me know that ChaioGoo guarantees their product. All you need to do is bring it in to where you bought it and they will replace it. On a very busy local yarn shop day Vicky exchange the needle for me. This is the first time that that has ever happened with a knitting needle in 22 years of knitting. I do tend to wear out knitting needles with high usage. I was very surprised and grateful. A special thank you goes out to Vicky of Grandma’s Spinning Wheel here in Tucson.
This week we decided to clean out under each sink in the house. 5 cabinets in all. So Tuesday I emptied all of them into laundry baskets. 2 baskets for the kitchen and one for each of the other cabinets. I think this should be done more often than I currently do it. I found empty containers, half filled bottles and boxes, and more than a few cleaning rags. This afternoon we put everything back. John volunteered to do the kitchen,By the way he is great at organizing things. We each did 2 cabinets. That leaves the 5th cabinet. While emptying the cabinet out I discovered that the towels felt crunchy, like they were put away wet. Not in this house. Then the towels started sticking to the wood. Not a good sign. Then I got to the bottom of the cabinet and they were hard to pull out. Underneath all the towels was discolored wood. Apparently the sink had been leaking and we did not notice because of the almost 2 foot layer of towels. Being one to divide up chores I took washing the 3 loads of towels with bleach and hot water. Then I got to fold them. I know that I could probably pin point the leak and try to fix it myself, but not this week. So John it going to tackle the leak and clean off the wood. Then I can put everything back together.
As of Monday afternoon I am on a temporary knitting hiatus again. My right elbow is giving me trouble. Next week will involve a test to see where we go from here. Because of all the cleaning of the past 2 days I have not gone through knitting withdrawal yet. I have been too busy. I did however ask John if he was really sure if he wanted me to passenger without my knitting. He was very brave to let me in the car without my knitting.
I am trying coloring in a coloring book to keep me distracted when I want to knit. I am doing really well with my left hand. I am staying in the lines. Playing with colors. Dropping a few colored pencils under the couch. I will pick them up when I have dropped a few more so I have plenty of colors to play with. I am going for abstract in the picture I an currently working on.
Well it has been a long week and it’s only Wednesday. So I am calling it an early night.
