Turns out I was being prompted to complete
construction on my very first sock divider.

I began to understand why Mary had purchased a
divider, and I prepared for assembly mode.
It was harder than it looked because there were
these little vertical slits that allowed one section to connect with another and
every time I tried to put a new section together, the old connection fell
apart. Eventually, I realized
construction outside the drawer was complicating matters, so we emptied the
draw and eventually completed the project.
As I began to see an end point, I tried to see some
benefits. Picking socks from the drawer
in the morning was sometimes complicated because I had a hard time seeing what
pair were gray or blue or brown in the semi-dark bedroom light. Often it wasn’t until I was putting them on
in my lighted closet that I realized I had brown socks with blue trousers.
“Why not separate the brown from the blue or gray by
putting one on one side and the other on the other?” I asked. This suggestion got little more enthusiasm
than when I occupied my days after retiring from the Navy by alphabetizing
Mary’s spice racks. That project drove
her to search the want ads for a job for me that eventually resulted in twenty-five
years in the Insurance industry.
And then we realized that there were only 36
compartments and, even excluding socks for special occasions, I had 38 pair,
none of which were worn to a point where my mother used to darn them. Figuring that Mary would work out the washing
cycle to correct that situation, we placed all the light weight socks in the
container and laid the heavy weighted ones on top.

We are now three weeks post socks-organizer and,
while I still occasionally mix my browns and blacks, I have resisted those
spontaneous sock purchases that I used to have on occasion. Should you wish to organize your socks, the
divider came from the Container Store and I have provided a hyperlink for your
edification.
My next post will explain what all those strange
noises are that I now hear and why they trouble me. I hope you will join me.
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