Mary, I could have typed your message myself! It took me 3 months to get a decent pair of socks, and I'm working on a pair now that will be too small, but I'll finish them up anyway. Socks are a challenge. I posed the gusset hole question myself a while ago, so below is the thread with a couple of suggestions. Glad to hear you've stuck with the process. Here is a link that might be useful: gusset holes

I would suggest you not do that. You're going to really mess something up that you won't be able to fix on your own. The reason it happened is as I told you your machine went off-balanced, so much so it couldn't get itself back in balance so it couldn't spin and if it couldn't spin it couldn't eliminate the water. Just don't repeat the same mistake by doing as I said before either filling the tub to full, by not using the Bulky/Large selection, or using a high spin for a very large load. Once I realized my errors I never repeated them. I washed 2 pillows and a mattress cover and got the error. It's hard to balance pillows and mattress cover with fillings that hold water which made the water off-balanced so the washer tried to correct itself it couldn't due to all that water causing a delayed response in the pillows. Now I make sure never to wash them all together. I still love my LG washer, it performs as expected and even the True Balance still works as expected. It can only do so much within reason. It cannot correct a load overly out of balance. Please don't take apart your washer, leave that for repair people. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

celticmoon, how TERRIFIC! What a great feeling it must be, to have that system STILL working. That's proof that it's a system that works for you. (I often think we blame ourselves when our new system doesn't work, instead of realizing that maybe the problem is the system doesn't match for us!) What is it w/ DH's and pawing through drawers? Back when DH used to dress the baby, I swear to you, he would open the drawer, put his hand in, and STIR! I swear to you, I WATCHED HIM! Then he'd grab some clothes, and dress the kid in pieces from different outfits (meanwhile, they'd all been folded together, shirt inside its matching pants, and laid neatly in the drawer) I've been thinking of you every day for about 2 weeks. Every time I open my sock drawer. I think of your success, and say, "I need to do somethign about this d*** drawer." I keep stuff besides socks in there--lint roller, some jewelry, the evening bag, extra gloves. And I have socks I should probably ditch. Maybe I'll try your rubber bands. (DH is in charge of his OWN sock drawer; I don't even want to go there, LOL!) And DS's sock drawer could probably use the rubber bands, too. I think of our comments about how sock drawers just do NOT want to cooperate, etc. Maddie, that's how my mom did socks--all socks went into a sock basket; if you wanted socks, you fished yours out. Every now and then, mom would be tired of the sock basket accumulation, and she'd make someone sort it out and put it away. She refused to sort socks; that was OUR job. And the teacher is thinking, "Oh, good. I'm not the only one who can't keep my kids' socks all bright and shiny." This reminded me of a conversation I overheard in the laundry once. This older woman (LOL, probably 57 or something) was speaking of her widowed son-in-law, who had 3 boys to raise after his wife (her DD) died. The grandma said, "he's doing a really good job, but the bottoms of their socks are gray!" She went on about it a little bit scathingly, as if somehow that proved that he couldn't do it without her help; he was basically incompetent as a dad, because the bottoms of his kids' socks were dark.

Got the computer back! I use Malwarebytes, but after what I call the "Coloring Book Virus" arrived on the computer, Malwarebytes did not pick it up nor did AVG Free. Too late I guess. Raven, I use IE and saw WOT on download.com but would rather download from the site you linked. I just have to make an account in order to hook up with the IE version of WOT? Also, if a person clicks on a site and WOT gives you a warning, isn't it too late by then? Not sure how it works. Moni, sweet picture of your granddaughter. Here's my current work. Hey, others can share work too!!