Brrrrrrr..... in Life

I’m sitting here freezing my tush off. There have been signs of spring here and there, but winter came back and bit us hard these past few days. We’ve now used 2 of our weather days. Today was a wasted one. There was really no chance at all of freezing precipitation our way, but they called it anyway. They had to call it tomorrow, too, because the freezing rain reached us tonight. My sidewalk is now icing over and I have tiny little icicles hanging off my room. Hopefully the wind today kept most of the water from building on powerlines, so no outages tonight. It will be rather cold in here if it does. I’ve never understood that I have natural gas heat, but an electric lighter, with no way to light it by hand.
You northerners can go ahead and laugh at us. We are expecting no more than 1/4 of an inch accumulation of ice (and probably less). However, that shuts us down pretty well. The snow, well, it slowed us down, but we dealt with it. The ice....that’s another story. An now, instead of the fine mist I was having with a tiny bit of sleet, it’s advanced to a steady rain with sleet. Maybe it’s warmed up above freezing. Yep, that’s what I’m going with. :)

For your entertainment, I leave you the picture that’s been floating around facebook all day: