We have yet another icy winter blast! Trying to stay warm, keep the ice chopped for the animals, etc. Hoping to keep my wonderful electricity. So many people in the state are without electricity. My thoughts and prayers go out to them. We did have to leave school early Friday because of the sleet and ice accumulation. Parents were picking up their kiddos left & right. Monday, the kids are out on holiday, but, the teachers were going to have to go back for inservice. My guess is that I will get a telephone call this evening cancelling our workshop. Darn, hate it!! The temp is not supposed to get above 20 until Thursday, so we will probably miss at least three or four days of school this week.

Update on Izzy Ella Bella, the piglet.... Actually, she is no longer a cute, little piglet, she's a huge, honkin' 163 pounds of bacon!!! (my daughter's FFA show pig) We can't get to her (at the ag barn) to check on her because of the roads. We went over Thursday before the storm hit and filled up her water tank and feed trough. The ag teacher, God Bless his soul, told us not to try to drive over there to check on her. He said he has to go over there everyday, so he will check on her for us. God love him. I guess Morgy & I will have to bake him some cookies or brownies to repay his kindness.

Morgy has once again deserted me to go play in the snow and ice with some family friends. This has become a tradition --if if snows, sleets, ices over, etc., they make a trip to town to pick her up, then, she spends a few days with them to go sledding, ride the 4 -wheeler, etc. Before she left yesterday, she went out to check on Charlie (the horse) and the dogs---feeding them and chopping ice, etc. She was gone for quite awhile, so I looked out to check on her and there she was lying on top of the thick layer of frozen sleet, face down, with the two biggest dogs, Cujer and Goldie, trying to roll her over. It alarmed me at first, I thought she had passed out or something, then, I realized she was playing with them. Goofy kid!! :) Those two big dogs love this snowy, sleety weather!! Cujer is so huge, he looks like a polar bear!! The other two dogs, Patches and Biscuit, were in their nice warm barn curled up in the hay, with the cat. Yeah, we have a zoo around here.

Well, I had better get back to work. I am taking this opportunity (being stuck inside) to work on one of those resolutions --getting organized. Translation--get rid of all the extra junk in the spare bedroom, so I actually have a spare bedroom, not a junk room!! I'm doing pretty good, I'm on a roll, so I'd better get back to it while I'm in the mood!