Michelle, It is 3:35 p.m. and I am watching The Weather Channel and it sounds like Arkansas is really getting it already and conditions are supposed to worsen, so I guess the Fort Smith forecasters may "ignore" ya'll even more if you're not having the ice too. Yes, we can hope we're wrong, but "in my bones" I feel like it is going to be a bad one. I can tell by the number of birds coming to feed, and we have huge numbers today. I just refilled the feeders and put out deer corn an hour ago, and the birds are having a big old pre-storm feeding frenzy right now. Randy and I both use the Weather Underground a lot and I love their forecasts. If you've never used it, you can access it via www.wunderground.com. Randy, I agree about the internet accuracy, but I have to say that our local TV forecast (Channel 12, KXII, the local CBS affiliate) has improved a lot since Steve LaNore became their chief meterologist. Still, I take it with a grain of salt and merge together their forecast, various online sources, the NWS and my own "intuition" to arrive at my own idea about what I think "will" or "might" happen. I bet the Eskies had fun. If it snows, and they get to go out and play in it, I hope you'll take a photo of them to share with us. Ada, Uh-oh. That's not good news. Y'all be careful. I think the perennials will be OK as long as their roots weren't bone dry. If they were bone-dry, you might have some root death. After all my bragging about what a fine job our local electric co-op does keeping the power up, I saw we're now forecast to get about 1/2 inch of ice here. Well, if that happens, the trees won't even have to bring down the poles and power lines, because the ice on the power lines will bring everything down all by itself. Oh, I dread the power being out. Our house is all-electric, so if we lose power, we're gonna be cold. Moni, I'm glad you're hubby is going to be able to make it home safely before the icing gets worse and the roads are even more dangerous. We went out and did all our errands early. Now we're just waiting for the fire pagers to go off, because as soon as the temps hit 32, the accidents start popping up on the Interstate like dandelions pop up in our pastures in spring. I don't really understand the sudden ice storm trend the last 5 or 6 years. Our first few years here, we had some gorgeous snowstorms and that was so much fun for someone like me who grew up in snow-deprived Fort Worth. These last few years, though, it is all ice and no snow. I'd rather have snow. Well, if I had a choice, I'd rather have 6" of rain and nothing frozen, but that's not gonna happen! Dawn

I did some beading too.... I had two ladies from freecycle, that between the three of us , we are doing some book trading...So I made them my beaded book markers as a thank you. I'm planning on making another one or two tonight. If I get it done I'll post a picture. We are not iced in but it is darn cold...So I've been trying to think of things to do that are little and not real involved. I've got some Valentine fabric. I thought I would make a couple of heart shaped hot pad holders for my cousins who I have lunch with once a month. I like to have a little gift for them on the months that have a holiday. patti

That is an awesome picture. No matter how many you take it seems no two are alike. Looks like you were headed right into it.

I'm so glad you liked my pictures! :) Evelyn was doing her darndest to catch up, mostly because she wants to climb into Claire's basket. Where are you in Alberta Jellybean? I thought that was canola. Jason tried to convince me it was something else so now I can brag that I was right. :) I am closer to you again Marie! We'll have to get together some time. I need to get passports for all of us first though. Nodakgal, I was just thinking to myself this morning that I will miss being able to have our window open in the morning and not be woken up by any noise. It was just rain and birdsong this morning. I will miss that a LOT. Socks, Evelyn is very blonde and her hair is also taking forever to grow, lol. It's coming though...slowly. Okwriter the cons are mice. And the mice. Did I mention the mice? LOL And the oil for heating is EXPENSIVE. And dial-up. Also I think that there is a rat living in the garage and Jason refuses to believe me. He insists it's a weasel. But what weasel would eat a package of candy? *shiver* We caught the edge of that last storm. It was pretty intense. The pink sheets at the bottom of the clouds are rain. I could actually hear it as I was taking the picture and it was probably a kilometre away. Thanks for taking the time to look and comment! I can't wait to move into town so I can enjoy everyone's pictures again. It just takes so darn long to download them that I often don't brave it. :( And I love looking at people's pictures! Danielle