More Hoar Frost !

We have had this beautiful hoar frost (click to see prof. pictures of it & definition) almost every day for a week! Bill says that sometimes you don't have it at all in a winter. Yesterday, most of the day everything was white with frost, snow and fog - the ground, trees, air and "sky". I did go to Bible study and another apptmt. but several others didn't due to the low visibility for driving.

Today schools all over Iowa are closed. It's 25 degr. and we've had freezing rain coming down since 5 am and wind. We prepare for power outage with this (extra water on hand, laundry done, gas for the generator, groceries) but with our new house and a generator we're in good shape. If there was ever a big ice storm and lots of lines are down, we could be kind of last on the list for repair.

The City of Pocahontas, where Glenn & Amy live, has a whole city generator so they don't have to worry about it much.

Mark Dickey who put our walls and roof up is at Peggy's to fix the machine shed. We're

hoping he can get that done before ice or snow gets heavy on the roof again.

Bill was a little worried this morning about a grain bin that's open. They've been having trouble with one. This one is 3/4 full so he says they'll need to get this corn hauled to town within the next couple of days which may not be easy with this weather.

I love the sun and blue, blue sky we have a lot here. No sun today though.