{"id":130,"date":"2009-01-13T09:58:34","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T17:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.wordpress.com\/?p=130"},"modified":"2009-01-13T09:58:34","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T17:58:34","slug":"socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"Socks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been making this sock pattern for worsted wool winter socks since 1978, but only periodically.\u00a0 And, every time I do make them, I wonder what in the world I was thinking when I wrote the pattern down, and I tell myself to fix it so I don&#8217;t have to figure out what my younger self might have had in mind at the time.\u00a0 Maybe this time I will actually take care of a translation.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_131\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-131\" class=\"size-full wp-image-131\" title=\"socks\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/socks.jpg\" alt=\"Plain, thick wool socks that fit\" width=\"460\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/socks.jpg 500w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/socks-300x276.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plain, thick wool socks that fit<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I started this pair a couple of evenings ago.\u00a0 It is nice mindless knitting in combination with watching TV and fending off kitty paws and teeth, plus if I am unsuccessful in defending it from the monster, and he pulls needles out of a row, it is easy to pick up the stitches, unlike lace knitting.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_132\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-132\" class=\"size-full wp-image-132\" title=\"hunting1\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/hunting1.jpg\" alt=\"Getting comfy for watching &quot;kitty TV&quot; aka birds outdoors\" width=\"460\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/hunting1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/hunting1-300x257.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getting comfy for watching &quot;kitty TV&quot; aka birds outdoors<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mishkin has a favorite spot in front of the sliding glass doors onto the front deck.\u00a0 He can dive under this little throw rug from a full speed run around the end of the couch.\u00a0 Then, we hear funny sounds emanating from the rug as he tells himself about what he would do with outdoor birds if only he was not an indoor kitty.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_133\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-133\" class=\"size-full wp-image-133\" title=\"hunting2\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/hunting2.jpg\" alt=\"Cat?  What cat?\" width=\"460\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/hunting2.jpg 2116w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/hunting2-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/hunting2-1024x811.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat?  What cat?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here he is in full camouflage watching the busy bush in front of the deck, which was swarming with chickadees.\u00a0 When he tires of birdwatching, he will crawl around the floor still wearing the rug, and talking to himself.\u00a0 Nothing wrong with this kitten!!!\u00a0 He is so dark that he virtually disappears when he is hidden this way, and we always have to pat the hump in the rug to make sure it isn&#8217;t occupied, prior to heading outside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been making this sock pattern for worsted wool winter socks since 1978, but only periodically.\u00a0 And, every time I do make them, I wonder what in the world I was thinking when I wrote the pattern down, and I tell myself to fix it so I don&#8217;t have to figure out what my younger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}