Flooding, so indoor crafts

It's been a rainy day in the mid-west. Three to four inches in Indianapolis this morning. I drove through the yard to avoid the rising water in the street to get to work this morning. I got drenched from head to toe and kept my shoes off most of the day because they couldn't dry out.

I got home tonight, and my garden looks like it survived. One potato plant and one Brussels sprout plant were a littl tipsy-turvy, but I think that was from the wet ground. They look like they will be okay as long as it deoesn't rain too much more tonight.

So I decided to use my evening to work on a great project for an upcoming Swap-bot swap. I'm going to wait to post pictures until I drop it in the mail. I've got to pick up some yummy teas before I can do that, but you can learn to make your own Tea Wallet here from "Is it Naptime Yet?"

Surviving the storm

Saturday night we had terrible storms in Indianapolis. Actually, I can't say that. I wasn't here. I was driving south at the time and watching them with my white knuckles gripping the steering wheel.

There was more lightening in the sky than I had ever seen and by the time I got home the power had been kicked off and back on. I was worried about the garden on Saturday night, but it seemed to survive and maybe even thrive from the rain.

I've got another strawberry on my plant. I ate the red one on Friday. I hope a few more start growing because one at a time isn't quite enough.

I thinned my carrots yesterday. I hate to pull out too many because there really aren't a lot of them to begin with, but I know that if I leave them too close together they will not grow. I did that last year.