I joined Sock Squad 2026.

Yes, the name on the yarn label is who started this whole ordeal or shall I say year of yarny adventures. Each month we will receive a skein of yarn and we can do whatever we want with it as long as our finished project contains a minimum of 75% of the Farmers Daughter Yarn. Not a problem if you knit a pair of socks. I’m taking the easy route for January.

Do you read much?

I read at least something almost every day. Each year I sign myself up for the Goodreads challenge by adding one more book to the previous year’s challenge which, silly enough, coincides with the last two numbers of the year we’re in. This year I’m going for 26 books. I read beyond my pledge last year which was easy once I got myself hooked on the short history books with lots of photos. Hey, they count, right?

The books that I’m currently reading are mostly carry-overs from last year. The Kindle app is on my laptop, my phone, my tablet then I have three Kindles with an ongoing book on each one. It’s almost like having several WIPs going in knitting. I read while I knit. Some watch TV. I read. Yes, I will watch TV or listen to it while knitting especially if it’s one of those romcoms that my husband seems to enjoy around the holidays. You know the movies. The girl and boy crash into each other somehow in a setting usually in a small town where it’s snowing. They don’t like each other, then they flirt for about an hour and then live happily ever after. Me? I prefer crime or mystery movies. I think I can blame those old black and white films for that obsession. They were my favorite back when I was a kid.

I’ve also discovered PixelCreate on my Pixel 10 Pro