Moving.....

It's work. There are appliances to clean, things to get rid of and plant pots to be emptied of wild flowers that refused to bow to winter weather.  Decisions must be made about what you are willing to carry with you and what will be crammed into a box to be re-discovered at a later date.
The rather eccentric collection of things that graced our walls are now in piles in the living room; leaving the walls looking bare and institutional.

For the first half of the day, every time I looked at the walls I would squawk, "Naked walls!"  Unsurprisingly, anyone in the room with me at the time tended to roll their eyes or chuckle.

Then, there is the book collection.  It is a collection of two life long bibliophiles melded into a wonderfully diverse and curated assortment.  Sadly, there is a problem with a glorious collection that is discovered only when moving.
This.....

The large bookshelf is stacked two and three books deep, with more squeezed in wherever possible. 

That is only about a third of the (physical) library.  We are fans of e-books as well, which is probably the only thing that has kept the book horde to a semi-manageable size.

Knitting has been proving, yet again, that it is how I maintain balance.  Two pairs of socks, one which had been on the needles most of year, have been finished!

The purple pair (started mid-December last year) is in Hawthorne Tonal from KnitPicks in their Corvallis colorway.
The second pair is a sock blank painted by Potion Yarns.
Both pair are my personal vanilla sock pattern; sixty four stitch, toe up, rounded toe, fish lips kiss heel, five inch leg and an inch or two of two by two rib.
I've also put a bit of work on the sparkly holiday sweater that I insisted needed to happen.

The pattern is Bauxite from Bitchcraft slightly adjusted to be a bit more tailored.  The back has only just been started. The yarn is Alux from KnitPicks in the Cream colorway, which has been surprisingly nice to work with!

Now back to the work of clearing out nightstands and the freezer, that I may earn the reward of knitting a few rows before falling asleep!