forecast: scattered thunderstorms

Just after the older kids went to school, there was a huge clap of thunder. Right away I did what I instinctively knew to do.

I made a fort.

Of course when I took this picture, the kids were busily playing in my laundry baskets in the other room, another rainy day favorite. But, as long as the dollar store keeps selling them for $5, I will keep replacing them when they get cracked from the "roiling current of the rapids" or the "most dreadful crash from which the passengers barely escape".