Okay, so I've already been mocked by my Iowa friends for my "blizzard" post (you know who you are:) ), but the last two days we had a good ol' oklahoma ice storm, and then 8inches of snow on top of that. But you know, ice is bad, and I feel that most of you northerners don't realize we how bad we have it down here! So I'm a dork, and I used my little rock scale to measure some ice. I'll spare you *all* the pics I took, here are some of the better ones. Each division is 1 cm, so most of the ice I measured was between 1-2 cm thick. It took about an hour this morning to get all the ice off of my car. Ridiculous! The pups don't like the ice quite as much as they like the snow. Which I'm sure has nothing to do with the fact that I haven't clipped their toenails in two months and they slide everywhere. That big dirt pile we have in the backyard, I coaxed them up there, only to watch Mitsy slide down the side of it, legs akimbo, and scrape the snow off of it with her body. Hilarious to me, not so much to the 
girls. Here is Lola, begging me to leave them alone and not make them do stupid things like climb up on ice piles. Also, just to further set the mood, they have been forecasting this storm for a week or so. We had plenty of time get prepared. So John and I discussed possibly getting a generator in case the power went off, since we don't have a fireplace anymore. Well, the local home despot store doubled the price of their generators! Spread the word, never shop there, because that was price gouging at its worst!! Seriously, they had generators for around $300, and that afternoon before the storm, they had doubled to over $700. Nice. So instead of buying a generator, I bought some yaktrax for my boots. It was a much cheaper investment, and vastly improved my ability to not fall on my face. They did not keep us warm as a generator might have, but we took our chances and luckily did not lose power.
girls. Here is Lola, begging me to leave them alone and not make them do stupid things like climb up on ice piles. Also, just to further set the mood, they have been forecasting this storm for a week or so. We had plenty of time get prepared. So John and I discussed possibly getting a generator in case the power went off, since we don't have a fireplace anymore. Well, the local home despot store doubled the price of their generators! Spread the word, never shop there, because that was price gouging at its worst!! Seriously, they had generators for around $300, and that afternoon before the storm, they had doubled to over $700. Nice. So instead of buying a generator, I bought some yaktrax for my boots. It was a much cheaper investment, and vastly improved my ability to not fall on my face. They did not keep us warm as a generator might have, but we took our chances and luckily did not lose power. 
This picture I thought was pretty awesome. It is a little bush/tree in our front yard (maybe an inch in diameter branches). It was windy, and the wind caused those weird rings of cracks all up and down it. The wind whipping through the ice covered trees was the weirdest creaking sound ever. It's really sad since we lost a lot of trees in the 2007 ice storm. I'm pretty sure we will not have anymore trees in Oklahoma after this winter. I also noticed that the dogs were constantly digging at the ground, and I realized that they were eating the ice covered grass. So here I am feeding them icicles. They love them, and oh so cheap compared to their other high dollar treats!
Here's the shop. These pics are just to prove that John got the rest of the rafters up. Sorry no sheeting yet Bill, I refused to let him on the ladder in the ice.
My parents spent the week with us. JM had shots on Monday, and he always gets cranky and fevery, so my parents thank god came down to watch him! They decided to stay through the storm since our daycare was closing early on Thursday. We played *a lot* of pitch. We figured we'd start the kiddo out early on the gambling. Clakity clak, bitches! Here's some more JM, because that is why I know you are visiting this site. Seriously, is that Damien on the left there? Does anyone want this demon child before he grows up into Satan and takes over the world? Oh wait, ducky!! Nevermind on that unholy demon spawn stuff (for now)!
Uncle Will stopped by to hang with John Milo (and to a lesser extent us)! He's moving to Phoenix...I think the high temp there was in the 70s today...nice. At least until July, and then 105 degrees in the shade...no thank you! We had a great time, despite JM's teething crankiness. Hopefully will be traveling out there a lot to see Uncle Will and go do exciting camping and hiking in beautiful northern AZ along the way!
