Still At Home

Well we are still at home. Winter precipitation moved out of the area on Sunday night and we have been at home ever since. You may have heard on the news about the ice storm that we have received, we were actually pretty lucky compared to others in the state. We received about 2 inches of sleet, which has not even begun to melt yet. In fact, the temperatures have not gotten above 25 yet. Others in our state have been without power since Friday and Saturday night. We luckily did not loose power because we received mainly sleet instead of the freezing rain. I wish I had a picture of the freezing rain areas to share with you but it is unbelievable. My parents live in this area and they lost power on Saturday morning, they lost water sometime on Sunday evening and completely lost their phone line sometime on Monday. Luckily dad has a generator, but on Sunday that was broken and he spent several hours trying to get it fixed. In fact, he spent over 2 hours on Saturday trying to get it started and then had to risk it to go and buy gas, which is no easy task when you live out in the boon-docks. They have lost many limbs from trees, very possible could have roof damage from them all falling, and even had one of the biggest trees in their yard completely uproot. To say that this storm was bad is an understatement. As of yesterday, they have received all of their utilities back on and back among the living...for now. That is just one story of thousands that are going on around ours state.

As for Wendy and I we have been in the house since Friday night. I finally got out yesterday and went to the store for groceries. I then decided to take the family out to dinner close to the house. Wendy was excited because she is getting tired of being locked down. Today we plan to go to the library and then spend the rest of the time at home. There is no telling when we will go back to school. I'll keep you posted.

Here We Go Again

Happy New Year by the way!!! I have been absent from blogging for a while mainly because I have nothing to say. I want to get better at posting. I love being able to keep up with so many of you.

Now that that is out of the way, here in Oklahoma we are bracing for another major winter weather warning. You might remember that during the end of November and beginning of December we were snowed in for about 5 days. Now we are bracing ourselves for a major ice storm. Starting today at noon and lasting until 6 pm on Sunday, we are under an Ice Storm Warning. They are predicting one to one and a half inches of ice to fall during that time. Plus major power outages, I hope that doesn't happen at our house (at least the loss of power).

There is something about our weather hear that I can not understand. Yesterday we had a high of 61 degrees, today we are already getting sleet and freezing rain. At least it's the weekend and Monday is MLK day, so hopefully we won't miss any more school.

I'll keep you posted.

We've Got ICE!!!!!!!!

I don't mean sleet and snow this time, but I mean actual ice. For those of you that know us, probably remember a conversation like this at some point:

US: Would you like to come over for dinner?

YOU: Sure, can we bring something?

US: We will handle all of the food, but if you want ice in your drink you might want to stop and get some.

Well no longer will you hear us say that. We finally broke down and purchased a new refrigerator. For those of you that don't know we have not had ice since our first year of marriage and that was because we made it with the old plastic ice trays. Our first refrigerator to own was left in our house that we bought in Searcy. We have had it ever since. The refrigerator was delivered yesterday and now we actually have ice. You are probably thinking, yippee ice, well we are talking 10 years of marriage without ice. So we are pretty excited.

By the way, you won't believe were we bought it.....