Greetings from the frozen mid-west!

The weather forecasters have been telling us that an ice storm is coming. I waited to see before I thought anything about it. Maybe it's because we'd gone to the store already for normal shopping and we were stocked and ready.

Yesterday the temps dropped from the high 50's into the 20's in just a few hours. The rain had been coming - and then it started to rain again...and freeze.  That was actually fun to watch.  We could see things right out our back window start to get a layer of ice on their tops. Then the sleet and freezing rain started.

 So I got my camera out...very glad to stay inside.

It sounded like someone was throwing salt against the windows. Amazing how much trouble those little pellets can cause.

You can see the ice starting to form:

The Professor came home early. The roads weren't awful when he drove home. But the sleet happened most of the night. I turned on the news about 8:45 this morning. There's a town south of us that the news reported power outages and the stores had no batteries or candles.

So far - no power outages here - just White. And it isn't snow.

Here's what I saw from my porch this morning.

The Jeweled Tree - looks more like a crystal tree:

It sure is pretty -

The professor went out to tackle the ice on the cars (no pics, sorry) and we discovered a layer of sleet and under that a layer of ice. I tried to get a picture of the ice/sleet with a ruler...couldn't get the ruler in the ice. It's pretty solid.

And we're going to get more.

Mini-Me said last night - "I'm so glad we have air conditioning (Meaning heat) because it's cold outside." I'm really grateful, too.  We just found out that our church has cancelled services for tomorrow. So I'm going to go make some hot chocolate and think warm thoughts. And watch cartoons, of course.