Well - It's cold.
It's Icy.

(I woke up this morning - minus a voice. I like talking. So here I sit - blogging while the Professor is pounding on the car trying to de-ice it.)

For some reason - I find it (the weather) amusing.

I remember the last major snow storm we had (Years ago) and you could hear the trees creaking and clattering in the wind because of the ice.

Maybe I find it amusing because I've got power and I don't have need to go anywhere. Maybe it's just my weird sense of humor.

Though - I didn't find it amusing yesterday. The Professor and I rarely fight - but yesterday we both wanted to do our own things. And kids being kids wouldn't let us - so we both got frustrated. Seriously, though, if I'd taken into consideration that the weather men had been predicting this for about a week - I'd have bundled the kids up and let them ride their bikes until their legs ached before it hit.

Alas - I was skeptical. The saying around here is that if you don't like the weather - wait a minute - it will change. This weather isn't going to change until, oh, Thursday. The precipitation will stop - but the ice will remain as a reminder of our Winter. And then summer will come and people will complain about it being too hot.  Oo - I digress. Sorry.

So what do you do when it's icy, the kids are stir crazy and the parents are cranky?

Well - the Holy Spirit gave me an answer!

I so love God-kisses like these...

You give them their squirt "guns" - filled with colored water - and send them out!

Yippee!!

Let the fun commence!

I only had 3 colors to work with: Red, green & yellow.

I followed directions on the box and succeeded in getting them all different colors. Mini-Me had pink. Naturally.

J-man had Orange.

(I just couldn't send him out with yellow - it was just wrong)

G had Green.

He had a great time making aliens, smiley faces and rocket ships.

The ice was so hard that the kids could kneel on top and not sink.

But the ice still showed the colors...

This is a heart by Mini-Me.

 The next wave of ice was coming through when we went out. The clouds were gray and it was getting dark early and it was only about 5pm. That's why the ice looks gray.

See? We could walk on the ice and not sink through (at least the kids were) and we weren't even the hardest hit area in the region.

I tried to take a picture of the ice on the tree in our front yard - but got a beauty instead - I love this picture!

So I tried again -

It really is pretty.

I put Mini-E on the porch on a blanket - and she played and crawled around pulling on the hedges and chewing on the food coloring bottles.

It won't be long before she needs her own squirt bottle.

The sleet is coming down again today and is supposed to last most of the day. The Professor is going to attempt traveling to work in the morning. Hmmm....

Oh!

And the really good thing about yesterday's excursion?

They didn't squirt each other!!!