Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for October 18, 2013

Mom’s ALWAYS know how to fill "Empty Time!

Who sorts socks?? Clip ‘em together with safety pins or sock clips when you throw ’em in the laundry basket. C’mon Rose, quit making extra work for yourself and you won’t need that Leaning Tree!

In our apartment here in “the home” we fold everything. Old habits are hard to break. Beside those sock clips make noise in the dryer (the home has a laundry room on each floor and folks who are supposed to be hard of hearing complain about the noise plus safety pins prick the fingers). When you retire, all you have is time, so we hold the socks up to the sunlight, to tell the difference between navy and black socks, and fold ’em. It is a time to be together and when my daughter-in-law comes to visit she is always amazed at the neatness of the socks, t-shirts, etc. folded by colors in the bureau drawers.

“I’ll find something for you…”

Statues require balance… Sock sorting requires sitting!

Thanks, Don and Pat! Now I’ll have something to shove at the three girl grandchildren, all of whom bore easily. (A net sock and underwear holder does eliminate the job, but we have about 1,000,000 spare sox piled up.) Sometimes five cents per match, juices up the motivation a bit.

If they want to play statues, they should step it up. Watch robot-boyz videos on You tube and try to copy them.

Socks get ‘sordid’ if you wear them too long.

Rose is rather statuesque, herself, so she could sort the socks.

Rose isn’t the sort that sorts socks. She gets bored with it very quickly.

Jimbo caught in the I’m bored trap classic.

I’ve always “Matched” and “Rolled” them. Keeps the Drawer tidy and the Cat loved to play with the “Balls”

(‘course they DID kinda roll ’funny’)

When I was a kid, I used to love sorting the socks.

you wear ’em you pair ’em around here.

I always had trouble trying to fasten socks together; they either came apart or the pins rusted into the fabric. Couple years ago I learned a very good trick: put them into a net washing bag. One per person. That keeps them all together.