"Winter, GO AWAY!!

Have I told you how much I dislike Winter?

I HATE WINTER!  I HATE WINTER!

I don't like cold weather.  I don't like to be cold.  I don't like to go outdoors when it is cold out.  That is why I live in Texas where thankfully our Winters are fairly mild usually.

I really don't know how so many folks survive in the northern states and in the northeast where they are currently inundated with unbelievable amounts of snow and ice.  No way would I ever want to live like they do having to bundle up every time they go outdoors, having to shovel snow, having to scrape ice, etc., etc........

I am so thankful to live in the good old South!  There is no other place I would rather live!  We are so blessed to have a cozy, warm house today.  We are keeping the fire stoked in our woodstove.  God has blessed so abundantly with everything we need.  

I went in to work as usual at 7:00 a.m. this morning, just as it began to sleet.  The roads were dry but it was sleeting hard and it did not let up so by 8:45 a.m. some associates decided to go back home, me being one of them. 

I snapped the following photos from inside my car as I drove very slowly back home:

 This is not snow.....it is ice crystals......piling up deeper by the minute...

 ....and to think only a couple of hours ago these roads were clear and dry....

....you can see the piles of ice that I had to scrape off my windshield.

All this ice on the roadways will be frozen solid by morning, making the roads impassable.  Schools and most businesses are closed today (and probably will be tomorrow also).  We in Texas don't have any way to deal with this frozen world except to stay home and wait for it to warm up enough to melt it, which thankfully it usually does in a day or two.  Yippee!

Staying warm at the edge of the woods.....