Will Take care of yourself. that is rotten to be sick in this weather. Nice to see you about time you came out and said Hi! Welcome...Keep us posted on how you are doing... Hi Dan Welcome too what is with the brugs in the street do tell..... Hi Karma, Carol,Mary and MJ...Carol that is so cold with the snow and the below temps...Stay warm...Didnt we trade this summer? Thanks Mj I used to have this print made out of foil from the fifties I think. It reminds me of that picture. I have to find it now.... We went into town. What a adventure. Fiance driving. LOL I about wet myself all the slipping and sliding. We live in the christamas tree capital of the world. Lots of pines. Anyways we stopped at a stand and got a tree fro ten bucks. We could have cut one but we are lazy and cold this year plus they are fresh. LOL Only came a couple of miles away. We got it all put up and decorated. I will take pic later. Planted a bunch of brug cuttings in the gh. Hey what does RP Stand for in brug language I cant remember what it is. LOL Gab soon ribs and saucerkraut fro dinner yummy....Barb Mary I dont fell sorry for you. Just kidding I do. Stay warm too.

Mike, I agree with your comments about Yogi and Freyr. How about Q? Was that really the best they could do? Rocky? A single mountain. (sigh) When I started reading the list of names, I checked the calendar to make sure today wasn't April 1st. I still like the idea of naming the really severe winter storms, but the list of names seems like it is about as odd as they could make it. We have been incredibly fortunate in terms of ice storms. We've lived here since 1999 and our longest power outage ever has lasted two hours. One year there was a pretty severe ice storm that hit Marietta and did a lot of damage to trees, but we are several miles south of Marietta, and the closest the storm got to us was a couple of miles north. Every year I wonder if this is the year that our luck with ice storms will run out. Dawn

So glad to hear from so many here today. The internet pictures are frightening. Jane, did you get any oil yet? Can you use your fireplace to keep warm if you don't get any fuel for awhile? I'll bet your back is going to hurt so bad after all that shoveling. You need a 4 wheeler or little tractor before you hurt yourselves bad. Lynn, thanks for enlightening me on your Coq au Vin. Sounds yummy. Hope DH makes it back home sage tonight. Sorry to hear your radiant heat isn't keeping you warm. We built a Super Good Cents Home and this is when it pays off. It's so nice and warm. I feel so helpless with so many of you dealing with this terrible weather. We are at zero but the roads are pretty good so that's worth alot. And tomorrow is Thursday so we only have to days before we can stay home for a couple days. Karenmo, you have a wonderful sense of humor. I'm not sure what I would be saying if we had 20" of snow with 3-4' drifts. Glad to hear you can at least get out through the garage to shovel out all your doors for safety. Jeanne, wonderful pictures of your birds. I think you should open the door and let them come in and warm up! That's a great shot of the female flying in. Luvs, hope you are feeling better today and thankful you live in CA. J, so glad DH can chauffeur you on these roads. My DH goes 2 hrs before I do and drives a county truck so I can't ride with him. I drive a truck so it's been good so far this winter. I can handle the cold but when the wind blows it's terrible. Sorry to hear of your outages. 15 to 20 minutes seems like hours when we're waiting. DCMDF, Punk

That's good to know Pal. I had intended to email her but am just now checking in. I have a cousin in Guntersville, AL who has a tree on/in his house. Everyone is okay though!! Here we have had awful storms this week and many tornadoes touch down. It was reported that these are the worst storms (number of, etc.) that our area has had in 30+ years. I believe the count for TN is 34 deaths. My dad has not had power since early Monday from another round of storms. He won't come to mine or my sister's house. Has to go down with the ship! LOL At my workplace - it is so sad to see so many of our old, beautiful trees destroyed. We have gorgeous gardens here but so much clean-up. We had 30 something windows broken out in our building last night. The parking lot looked like we had astro turf due to all the green leaves/branches. Hope others in AL check in - thankful Allison is well and everyone else stay safe!! tina