Ice and sleet

Well, the sun is setting on day one of "Ice Storm 2010"...dud dun dun DUNNNN!! (Sorry, just had to add the dramatic background music...the drama over these storms would crack UP all of you people who don't live in OK.)

Anywhooo, the monkeys and I had a great day. We went a few blocks over and visited with friends and had breakfast before the roads became unpassable. Then we've snuggled around the house most of the day...playing, reading and watching movies. The ice started about 8 am and this afternoon changed to sleet. Overnight it's supposed to change to snow and we should have a solid 8 inches to play in by the time it lets up late tomorrow!! Oh, and the weatherman says that if we keep our power until about 7pm, we should probably make it without an outage (t-minus 45 minutes)! Hooray, cuz as fun as candlelight and camping style cooking is, it's stinking COLD! So here's to spending Saturday building some awesome snowmen!!


I caught this awesome pic of the ice accumulating on our chiminea...


You can see the ice forming on the storm shelter door and vent...


Here's a shot late evening from standing on my front porch. The white is "sleet" not snow, which seems to be small extra cold hail.

As long as we have power, more to come tomorrow...