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Well, that was an interesting weekend. The bulk of the day Friday was delightful. It was sunny and pleasant, I went for a good run, I had a relaxing afternoon reading while Ruthie napped, and then the Mister and I went out for dinner. But toward the late afternoon, the wind started picking up. The lights flickered in the restaurant as we were eating our salads, and shortly after we got our entrees, the power went out for good. The Mister was able to look at the status of our internet on his phone and confirmed that the power was out at home, too. We were able to finish our meal, left information so they could process our payment the next day, and picked Molly up. There wasn't much to do at home when we got back other than take Ruthie out and put her to bed and go to bed ourselves. Thankfully the power came back on around 9:30 -- especially given that there are still people without power -- and when I got out to walk on Saturday morning, in addition to lots of branches and debris everywhere, I found this a few blocks from our house:

You might need to click to make the photo bigger, but that's a traffic light next to the person standing at the corner. The wire holding it up across that street completely snapped, and power was still out at the intersection the last time I checked on Sunday. I'm hoping they'll be fixing it soon -- many of the drivers I saw going through there didn't seem to know what to do at an intersection with the lights out!

We were out on the later side on Saturday, too, at that bat mitzvah. We left shortly after 8, and dinner still hadn't been served, so we picked up some takeout on the way home. After getting Ruthie to bed, I had to fold laundry and we had to make our grocery list, and then it was time to go to bed myself. All of that is to say that I didn't really make any progress at all on my sweater over the weekend and this is all I have to show for it so far!

I have to do a bunch of short rows and some more increases before I get into the colorwork, but I'm feeling confident that as long as I get a couple of evenings with it, I will get there and have some actual progress to share on the blog later this week.

And thanks to the longer nap times Ruthie has had the past several days, I've done a lot on the socks:

This photo was taken Sunday morning; by the end of the day, I'd completed about six inches of leg on that second sock. You can see a little of the pooling on the heel. To be honest, I think it actually looks pretty cool! The colors are all close enough that it's not glaringly obvious. I was expecting it, having experienced it a number of times in the past when knitting with Lorna's Laces yarn. It doesn't bother me, and I know my mother-in-law won't know the difference. I'm hoping she likes the ribbed sole; I have a pair I knit years ago with a ribbed sole that feel like a massage when they're warm, so I thought they might help with her neuropathy.

We've got a pretty normal week ahead, though I'm sure it'll be busy as it's Molly's last week of school before spring break and the teachers seem to be cramming in a lot of assessments. I have my annual physical on Wednesday, at which I'm expecting my doctor to tell me I'm now eligible to get a colonoscopy (ah, the joys of getting older!). And we're expecting more up and down weather -- rain most of today changing to snow this evening after it was 70 yesterday. Hope your Monday is off to a good start, or at least a non-dramatic one!