Iced in

It's a good thing I made that decision on Wednesday.

The ice started to accumulate around noonish yesterday, and by 2, there was a layer of it on the ground, and there was sleet piling up on top of it.

Little ice pellets fell from the sky all afternoon.

Tiny juncos sheltered in the hedge right outside our door (where I found an iguana growing back in warmer weather), and on the porch. They're so cute! But they were being buffeted about by the hard winds, and they had tiny ice chips clinging to their feathers.

I heard from one of my now-ex co workers, and she said that many employees got stranded at work, or at a nearby hotel, yesterday/ overnight.

NO way I was going to risk that...on my last day? Can you imagine having to sleep in a nursing home bed, and use a nursing home shower room, and eat nursing home food?

Nope.....

So, my final pay check will be short a day, but it was worth it. (have I mentioned that I will have never gotten a full paycheck from that job?)

Dave stayed home, too, and has today scheduled off as well. The snow hasn't started yet, but we're supposed to get a layer of snow on top of the piled-up sleet, which, this morning, appears to have solidified into pure ice.

Our power blipped off last night, just once, for only a moment. So far, so good.

Dave said that the devastating ice storm last year probably took out the trees and weak poles that downed power back then, so that, now, the power lines are pretty secure.

All of them are above ground, strangely. Probably because the ground here is all hard, red clay.

I need to figure out how to get some exercise today. It's been days since I walked, or went to the gym. My body aches from lack of use.

Maybe I will take my massage table down, and try doing a little dance work out. I haven't danced in MONTHS.