{"id":6514,"date":"2015-08-03T17:44:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T22:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=6514"},"modified":"2015-08-03T17:44:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T22:44:23","slug":"now-i-know-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2015\/08\/now-i-know-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Now I know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/kollage-hope-yarn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6515\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/kollage-hope-yarn.jpg\" alt=\"kollage hope yarn\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/kollage-hope-yarn.jpg 350w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/kollage-hope-yarn-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/kollage-hope-yarn-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned many new things in the past several days. Here are some of them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I will close on my new house on Thursday, August 6.<\/li>\n<li>On that day I&#8217;ll go to Lowes to buy a frig (not included in my new house) and Sleep City to buy a mattress (not moving my old one-I&#8217;ve bought an air mattress to use temporarily).<\/li>\n<li>The mover is already booked solid on Friday, so I&#8217;ll be moving on Saturday, August 8.<\/li>\n<li>Lowes will do Sunday deliveries, BUT they are already booked that far out. In fact, when I buy my refrigerator on Thursday they&#8217;ll give me a delivery date, which will likely be about a week away.<\/li>\n<li>Fortunately my daughter, who lives just a few blocks away, has a dorm-sized frig I can borrow and use in the interim. And she has plenty of space for my currently meager freezer stuff. (I&#8217;ve been hard at work emptying freezer and pantry.)<\/li>\n<li>Although not confirmed yet, I&#8217;ll likely close on my current\/old house on Monday or Tuesday of next week. That&#8217;ll give me a chance to get back down here and do whatever last minute sweeping\/vacuuming\/etc. is needed, as well as picking up anything I forgot or otherwise left behind. I may even decide to dig up a few of my perennials to bring with me. Or not.<\/li>\n<li>After opening 5-count-em-5 boxes, I found the box with my knitting pattern books in it. Remarkably, I&#8217;d written &#8216;patterns&#8217; on the outside of it. If only I&#8217;d remembered I&#8217;d done that, I wouldn&#8217;t have had to open the first 4!<\/li>\n<li>I pored over knitting baby blanket patterns and couldn&#8217;t make a decision &#8211; too many lovely choices. I looked at free patterns online, which only made the decision harder. So I wrote down the yardages needed for the 3 patterns I liked most. I&#8217;d just buy enough yarn for the one that used the most yarn and would have some left. Maybe.<\/li>\n<li>Then I started looking at the colors of the yarn I&#8217;d purchased for my niece. I didn&#8217;t want to use the same yellow I&#8217;d used for her blanket, and most of their other neutrals didn&#8217;t send me. So I spent more time online looking for a nice, soft, organic cotton in the size I wanted &#8212; sport\/DK. Not baby, not worsted, sport weight. I found a really lovely yarn. Hope, by Kollage. It&#8217;s organic, grown &amp; spun in the USA. And 10% of their profits support local charities!<\/li>\n<li>The best price I found was from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/150355386\/kollage-yarns-hope-organic-cotton-yarn\" target=\"_blank\">CarolsCabin on Etsy<\/a>, and the seller just couldn&#8217;t have been easier to work with. I had the yarn mailed to my daughter&#8217;s house. No point shipping it here for me to move, and without a clear sense of when I&#8217;d be official at my new house, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve done with several things I&#8217;ve ordered in the last week or so. Although the yarn apparently comes in a variety of colors, I couldn&#8217;t find any, and thought that natural was a good choice for a baby, anyway.<\/li>\n<li>You know that saying about tasks taking up as much time as you allot to them? I&#8217;ve never spent so much time being so unproductive. Thinking, online research, planning, but very little <em>doing<\/em>. I&#8217;m pretty good with being a temporary slug, knowing that it&#8217;ll all be over and I&#8217;ll be a busy beaver again soon. On many fronts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> I&#8217;ve learned many new things in the past several days. Here are some of them.<\/p>\n<p> I will close on my new house on Thursday, August 6. 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