Cold-Icy Weather

Icicles hanging off the back porch on Saturday morning-they've been there for 2 days now!

Ice on the back porch-it's beginning to melt!

And on the porch railing-you really had to watch your step out there-it was frozen over!

Icicles hanging off the back of the house.

Thankfully it's all over now and we've had a beautiful, sunny, and warm day today! But we have more icy fronts predicted for the middle of this week! I am SO ready for Spring! We took a bad weather day on Friday-no school-because of all the iced over bridges and roads-we also had reports of trees down over the roads-but we were fine here. Just went through LOTS of firewood. It even got so cold at one point we turned the gas heat on-the wood heater just couldn't do the job on its own!

My back is much better-but is still bothering me at times. I don't want to take anymore of the pain meds-so I'm just bearing with it. I'm still trying not to lift anything and just being a couch potato most of the time. I got out and walked some yesterday-went down to the pond to check the water level-it is filling up nicely with all the rain we've had. A little bit more and some warmer weather-and we might be looking for some fish to stock it with! We did go into Cleveland yesterday and picked up some feed and a few groceries-so I walked a little bit there, too.

We had the Grand Opening of our new library at Church this morning. They had a donation luncheon along with getting to see all the work they've been doing on it. All the kids seem to be loving the idea that they can get books at Church as well as at school. We've even had a few computers donated as well. There is a children's side along with books for adults to check out as well.

We've got 3 roosters to butcher this week and Jeff just got a call for 6 more rabbits to be delivered to the Austin area-so looks like he'll be busy starting the week off. And we had a heat lamp on the front porch for my houseplants-but it appears some of them froze anyway-:( The cold got my ivy's-a little of my big palm-and a few others-hopefully some of them will recover!!

Busy Last Few Days!

Jeff, Randy, Ricky and me finally got the sausage hanging in the smokehouse last night. This butchering has been a 2 day process with all 4 of us having a hand in it at different times. The sausage is still in the smokehouse and the bacon is curing on the front porch. It has been SO cold!
Julie has a few broken and still frozen pipes and so does Alana. Ours-knock on wood-have been OK. Jeff's Dad is back in the hospital-he has pneumonia-so we are fixin' to head to Conroe to see him. We'll pick up the pumbing stuff we need while there and get Randy and Ricky to work on fixing all of it tomorrow-since the temps are already dropping again and it's gonna be another cold one tonight!

Still No Pigs!

We're STILL waiting!! She seems to be a little (or a lot!) attached to this litter! Jeff's brother James came by and looked at her yesterday-he seems to think she still has another week! And boy does she miserable! And to top it off-we had a cold front blow in this afternoon-temps dropped 20 degrees in about 10 minutes-and we could have sleet over night. But the sow hasn't built her bed/nest yet-so hopefully it'll warm up some again before she has them!

Green Things!

Here is grandson, Jordan, bringing in the GREEN STUFF from the garden and chicken pen yesterday. Jeff cut the biggest of the broccoli-I picked 5 more snow peas to add to my collection in the freezer ( I should have enough to cook in a week or two ! ) and the 1 and only egg (what's up with that !) we got yesterday-a green one. I meant to cover up the remaining squash plants-there are a few small ones left-because it's really cold out there this morning-29 degrees @ nearly 6:00 am. Frost all over the windshields-which reminds me-gotta go warm up the Jeep so I can go to work. Have a wonderful day!