January 09 Ice Storm

Hello, there. We had an ice-storm here the week before last. To us, it was just beautiful. We just one blink of the lights and everything was closed for Tuesday and Wednesday, so we just stayed home. I finished four books. It was delightful. These are a few pictures:

Of course, Ilove winter and was happy as a ever taking a walk and snapping pictures of how beautiful everything looked.....And the kids in the neighborhood took over our driveway which slopes toward the street for perfect sledding!

THEN! I made a run to Wal-Mart on Thursday and discovered that many people in our little town had been without electricity, and that this ice-storm had caused wide-spread damage and eventually (this week) we were declared a "disaster area"!! How clueless could I get? I didn't even have to re-set a clock! Anyway, it was beautiful even if it did turn out to be a disaster.