An eventful weekend

 Three day weekends all the time would be nice: a day for running errands, a day for relaxing at home, a day for social/spiritual stuff. Sadly, I rarely get them, and sometimes it's even hard to swing a two-day weekend....

Friday I did go out. I wanted to do "nicer" grocery shopping than I can get locally, so that means Albertson's. Which, of course, is only a few blocks from the yarn shop, so....

 Dream in Color in "Element 79" (I looked it up: it's Gold, which makes sense given the color). And another in "Alive" (this one a DK weight, for mitts). And the name makes me think of that one episode of Bluey where Bandit pretended for his kids he was "born yesterday" and at one point was wonderingly saying "Alive?" to things like plants. 

And the third one is another one of those paired skeins of Gusto yarn that stripes/ombres, for another pair of socks. 

The book is "Victorian Cats to Knit" which is amusing - rather realistic cats you can hand knit; I might make myself an 'arnj' one. 

I also got my grocery shopping done. 

Saturday we were supposed to have storms, so I stayed home and knitted on the "Roadside Attraction" socks. 

The heel flap on these is clever; it has purl rows on it that mirror the design on the leg

 Unfortunately, the bad storms came late Saturday evening - we wound up getting a tornado warning starting around 10 pm and lasting off and on (they'd cancel one and then start a new one) until almost midnight.

So I wound up hanging out in the bathroom (my tornado safe space). Here I am at about 11 pm, tired and worried (both because of the storms and because I had to play handbells at church the next day and was afraid I'd mess up from being tired)

 (That's a big red panda stuffie I have)

Sunday - well, handbells went fine despite my being tired, and there was other good music, and it was just in general a good Easter service.

And then in the afternoon I took a minute to do this. This thistle - I think it was a Cirsium arvense, so an invasive- had come into my back yard and while I'd mowed it down several weeks ago I knew I'd have to get rid of it, so while the soil was wet from all the rain I got my shovel and popped it out from the roots. (Normally these things have a tap root but I didn't seem to get it. Or maybe it just hadn't developed yet?)