The Archives - January 2007
Ice Storm!
Other than the snapping of pine trees, we're feeling like we're back in Georgia! We had about 1/4" of freezing rain yesterday, and more is on the way tonight, with 1-3" of snow predicted on top of that. Thankfully, the roads get salted pretty quickly out here, so unlike Georgia, we're able to get out and about pretty quickly.
UPDATE - The snow ended up coming in the form of rain and then freezing rain all night - we woke up to 1/2" accumulations in some places, and no power (now it does feel like Georgia!). We lit the candles, fired up the gas heater in the living room (thanking the Lord for the foresight to install it last year!), and dipped water out of the cistern for basic toiletries, and got along just fine, thank you. It was sort of a Little House on the Prairie experience, and Tyler and I spent much of the day doing manual farm chores such as moving hay and hand shelling and grinding corn for the chickens. It was fun!
By mid-morning, it started up a light snowfall, and we had a nice inch or so by evening, when we retired to the living room by candlelight together as a family. The boys and I had a blast doing some truck-powered ice sledding out in the hayfield:
It's been simply beautiful the past two days with the ice glittering in the trees and the snow on the ground with flurries continuing all through this morning.
Now This is A Winter Forecast!
Ice Hike with the Boys
The boys and I went on about a two-mile hike in the ice yesterday along Indian Creek. It was absolutely beautiful walking among the ice-encrusted trees and field stubble. It hasn't been cold enough for the creek to freeze over, though (yet).
What I Hope to Never See
That's a photo of an old farmhouse to the northwest of us burning... Thankfully, this was a controlled burn, as the house had not been lived in for some time, and the owner wanted to convert the property back to farmland. However, knowing that our closest (volunteer) fire department is at least 10-15 minutes from us, if we ever have a house fire, they will pretty much get there in time to put out the coals. The house above was fully involved in less than 10 minutes, and to the ground in about 25.
My Cowboy Son
Still Life with Sunsets
Three different sunsets, and no, these were not Photoshopped, either...
Books I Have Read This Year
A General's Life - The Autobiography of General of the Army, Omar Bradley
Missionary Patriarch - The Story of John Paton (autobiography)
With Lee in Virginia (a historical fiction by G. A. Henty)
Anne (with an 'e') of Green Gables
Anne of Avonlea
Uniting Church and Home
A Holy Life (John Bunyan)
Anne of the Island
Anne’s House of Dreams
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