pictures ice storm

heavy ice on the cedar tree over the porch

little Melody goat has had to stay out for an hour or so at a time here and there - because of house training etc. she is a goat after all etc - the dogs and cats have been coming in and out as they wish but mostly in

the sunrise this morning glinting on the ice in the trees

counted chickens - I saw everyone except the second rooster - and he had disappeared from -my- view for a week a few months ago and then showed up again  

 It took us SO long and two people giving all the effort we could to get that chicken door lock (and the whole door, apparently, as was necessary) unfrozen enough to open the door and get water to them - I was able to put food in with a tube but water was not so easy.

 

 We did not go anywhere today - but I did walk up to the road and look at it.  No one had been by except myself, the dog, and wild creatures (deer, rabbit, bird).  The snow had a hard layer of glaze over it that even my footprints did nothing to break the surface - just a bit of scuff in the top most layer of sleet.  At a few places the ENTIRE road bed cracked at the edges but the middle stayed solid.  There will probably be no going anywhere tomorrow, too - even at the height of the whole 32 degrees we might get at the warmest part of the day.

 

 

It doesn't look like much but actually - it really is - it is like a huge smooth hard sheet of hardened snow like a motorcycle helmet over the entire road - and it doesn't stop at the top of the driveway, it keeps going onto the county road. 

 

 

Again, counting blessings that the water is good and the power is fixed.  A lot of people in the area were still out of power today.  Esme was worried about not being able to login to her college or email the instructor - but then she found she was missing a letter in the name and at least got the email through.

 It will be what it will be - as for how long we will be stuck without being able to get into work or school.  Hopefully Wednesday or Thursday there will be enough of a shift during the warm parts of the day to at least make things passable.... but then it gets cold again after that. We will need propane by then, certainly, but not as critically as if the power was out.