Homeward bound...

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Last week was quite a whirlwind week for us and we start off this week with an all day car drive back to Indiana (my weeks start on Wednesday now because a Tuesday was the last day we hiked, it makes sense in my head).  Google tells me it's only 10 hours 26 minutes, and if all day wasn't enough, our experience driving out here to my parents' place in Newport News proved to be much longer due to delays with traffic and construction.  This is the second Wednesday in a row that we will have an all day adventure, lets hope it doesn't turn into a trend.

Our goal was to be up around 6 this morning to get driving and beat some of the heat as we have no AC in our car.  I was up at 6, I just didn't get off the floor, and as it is now 8:13...  At least we packed the car last night with the little bit that we have to take back with us.  All except the chocolate, I was smart enough not to leave that in the car overnight, yesterday the heat index for the area was well over 100 degrees and as of this morning the thermometer says 80 degrees already, you can imagine what kind of day we're going to have.

My ankle is slowly healing.  It went through its bruised phase and has transitioned to mostly yellow.  The swelling has gone down but it's still a bit misshapen and larger than the other ankle.  I'm also getting better at walking.  Then again, with my feet not being used to stepping on level surfaces, I'm surprised I'm not having more problems.

Part of recovery has been a lot of sitting around with ice packs on my ankle which means I have been able to get a fair share of knitting done.  Before we left Indiana I was asked by several people if they could send us things while we were on the trail and another made a joke about drop shipments of yarn to me.  Not being sure how to coordinate individuals sending items, I put the last two ideas together.  Folks from my social "yarn-ie" circles could all chip in about 10 yards of sock yarn.  What do you do with that?  Make socks of course.  One person collected the yarn, rolled it into a ball, and sent it to my parents for putting it into a resupply box.  It made it to my parents and was scheduled to be in the next shipment... the one that didn't get shipped.

Which meant that as soon as I got back I was handed what turned out to be around 800 yards of yarn, enough for two pairs of socks!  First day back I cast on and started knitting.  Pair one is almost done and I should be able to start the second pair today on the ride back to the Midwest.