Flood

  We had had a bit of water coming in from the recent rain storms, but nothing too bad.  Today however, it got bad.  Zoom in on the window if you dare.

  This is the after.  The rain even lightened up for this picture, how nice of it.

  Let me tell you about the middle part now.  I saw the water coming in the window, snapped a picture, threw a bunch of towels on the floor, and ran out with no idea what to do.  That small piece of wood wasn't long enough to fit on the metal semi-circle, so with all the heavy rain, it fell in and brought the tarp in with it.  This caused the tarp to funnel water in.  I got it mostly covered and ran inside for a bucket.  By the time I was back out it had caved in again, so I got to bailing.  I got about 12 or so bucket's full out of it and started trying to cover it again.

  I tried to put the tarp over the top and the wood to hold it down, but since the tarp doesn't have any structure, it kept caving in.  I got it to mostly stay with the two longer skinny pieces of wood under and the shorter one on top, but since part of the tarp wasn't bein supported it partially caved in again before too long.

  This time I grabbed one of Bill's extra pieces of wood that was already warped and slapped that down.  I then put one of the skinnier pieces down to help cover more of the opening.  I scrunched the tarp against the house and put the second skinny piece on top.  Since there was a tiny bit of tarp without wood under it I put the smaller piece on to help defect the rain.  After I went in and changed my cloths again (I changed before I got the bucket so I wouldn't drip all over the house) I used the towels to get more water up and set up our box fan.

  By the time I went out to get a picture the rain had let up and the pooling waters had started to recede.  The section of ground had about seven inches of water before this that I had to stand in.  While I do admit that there was a lot of whining involved, I think I did pretty well at handling everything.  I did call Bill about it at one point and told him what was going on with the water in a way that probably made it sound like there were no spaces in-between my words, but it was okay in the end.

  In much softer and nicer news, I started the second blanket for the basement!  It is a crochet corner to corner and I'm going to follow the Three Mandala Thrill pattern to make it a rectangle.  Hopefully I will have enough yarn, and if I don't then I'll figure it out.  I'm not used to making things that I know I'll keep and want to have be certain dimensions.  Usually I just wing it with what I have and call that good enough.

The Door to Another Hat

  My Woven Lattice Hat pattern is available in my Ravelry store right now!  Some people have been reporting issues using the new website layout because of the change in the colors.  It has been giving some people migraines and a few people have even had seizures.  I'm wondering if I should start listing my patterns on my Etsy shop along with my Ravelry shop.  I'm not sure yet, but I'm thinking it over.
 The reason why it took so long to get this out was that I was having the pattern tested soon before states started to close down and people were told to shelter in place.  This threw a lot of chaos into people's lives and one of my testers wasn't able to test it after all.  This actually worked in our favor because I slightly changed the decreases for the XS hat.  It was a bit too pointy for me and since I gave each size it's own page, I figured why not change it a bit.  It's still a tiny bit pointy, but a lot less than before.

  I think I have all the crafting materials out of the storage unit.  Does this mean I'm done putting my craft room together and can have a grand reveal?  It does not.  I still have things in there that need to be figured out and there is also all the things that got left around the house while everything was going on.  I did manage to empty out a few project bags, so I've started to chip away at the things in the house.

  We thought that we hadn't gotten the door delivered to us, but it turns out that they just leaned it up against the side of the house and threw a tarp on it.  We're hoping that it won't rust from all the rain and humidity in the air since we still haven't scheduled an install date, not that the delivery people would have known that.

  This is Carrot Cake.  He/she got a name other than Teeny because I'm pretty sure that I caught him/her about 3 times.  I thought it was far enough away to take them to the forest near my house, but I think he came back.  Bill wanted to know how he/she was so dumb to get caught so many times.  Well, this trap was in a drawer, so no need to tangle with the kitties, I never acted threateningly, and there was always a bit of Carrot Cake Oreo in there.  That's where the name came from.

  Here you can see Carrot Cake and I going to the park.  It was only about a mile away and the internet said I should have aimed for 3-5.  That was on Saturday, and no far he/she hasn't come back, so I think we are good.  I was in a competition with the kitties on who could catch more mice.  I also didn't want to have to find more smelly mouse bodies in Fiona's room.  Two was enough for me.  I got one away from Tank and set it free.  They came in because Bill threw out the grain in the garage that they had been feasting on.  I'm hoping we got them all out now.