Harvey

I live Southwest of Houston. Thankfully we're fine, just a little water damage where the roof leaked and the green house roof got ripped up a little. I heard at least 3 different tornadoes go by when Harvey made landfall, I have a feeling one of them did pulled the shingles off. But other than that we're fine. I know a lot of people cannot say the same...
   I am very thankful that while I spent all Friday and Saturday moving things up off the ground we did not get flooded. Now Mom and I are going to go through everything playing "keep, sell, donate".

 I hope everyone out there stays safe and dry.

Booties

I decided to get creative and try to make up a new pattern for booties. So far all I have is the sole.
  I'm not even sure about the colors. My mom says they look a like a carrot. But at least you should be able to find them if you're in a hurry.
I was going for something gender neutral so I could give the prototype to whichever family member has a child next.

  Why make a new pattern, you ask? Because the other one took too long to make. My cousin had twins a few years ago and I wasn't able to make both pairs before the shower; I ended up having to ship them a week later. I'd rather not have to do that again.
  I've been stuck trying to figure out what type of stich I should make the top part out of. I think I'm going to have to just bite the bullet and make one. I'm leaning towards a slip stich pattern like this pair of socks I made that my mom loves.

Sorry I didn't post for a couple of weeks, I've been working on getting ready for school. Classes start on the 28th assuming we're not underwater. Hopefully it won't be that bad.
      Have a bat-tastic day everyone!

Wire spider

The other day I got bored and decided to see if I could make a spider out of some scrap wire. In my defense my Pinterest feed was full of pictures of them. I didn't like the way the ones I made following any of the web tutorials came out, so I made up my own.

 I think it needs a larger bead for the abdomen, but I like the way the wire looks.  What do you think?

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 If I can find more larger holed beads I might make some to sell.

      Thank you for reading. I will Please have a bat-tastic day!

Watermelon

    Yet another in my series of volunteer plants we couldn't grow when we purposely planted seeds. This time it's watermelon. Earlier in the season, right after we had filled the middle bed with cucumber and pepper plants, we found a clump of unidentified seedlings. It turned out they were watermelon vines that would grow so aggressively I had move one of the jalapeno plants out of the bed because it was covered in vines. Completely covered, I had trouble finding it. 

  The real surprise was that the melons we've eaten so far actually tasted good.    

   Lesson learned: always toss seeds in the garden, because composting pays off in more ways than one.

Here is a picture of one of the five, yes five, small watermelons the vines were able to produce before they died. 

   Side note: I have no idea why the died, but I suspect it was the heat and lack of rain, it's killed just about everything else, despite daily waterings.

We've been freezing the rinds and giving them to the chickens as a nutritious and cooling snack. Because it is too hot.

Thanks again for reading. I hope you have a bat-tastic day!