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Diving Into the Inventory

As with most people these days, I have more free time on my hands. The Mild Wife and I don't really go anywhere other than to go on our weekly drive, so we're basically home all the time. In effect, the only times I open the front door are to check the mail or take out the trash. It's just how it goes; social distancing is a thing, and we're trying our best to do our part.

So, what is one to do with the extra time? I have tried to not fill in that time with extra work, lest I blur the home-work line too much. I mean, I generally enjoy what I do, and there's never a shortage of work. But I'd really prefer not to turn into a workaholic during the pandemic, so I'm trying to find other ways to spend my hours.

Fortunately for me, I have a few other hobbies that I can indulge during this time. Notably, I still have crochet hooks and a big old collection of yarn. Yes, I still crochet stuff every now and then. And since I've managed to make quite a few beanies and blankets over the years, I have actually collected quite a few skeins of yarn over time. It's not at a ridiculous level (though the Mild Wife does like to poke fun about my "collection"), but there are several half-used skeins floating around the house.

So, I decided to put both the yarn collection and my new-found free time to use. I have started making something for the house that both uses up a fair bit of yarn and lends itself to using all of the half-started/half-used skeins of yarn. I won't divulge the actual item just quite yet since it's still a work in progress, but those two properties make it much easier to use up my free time and existing yarn skeins. Basically, I'm back into "Netflix and crochet" mode.

As you can probably imagine, I chuckled a bit when I realized this, and the Mild Wife also seems to be enthused about this prospect (I am making something for us, after all). All in all, it's been a win, though I wish the circumstances that led to this particular outcome weren't so dire. Either way, I figure it's a small silver lining to come out of all this. Yarn always seems to deliver a bit of a smile around the Mild Home.
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