Here we are at Christmas time! Miles, Jody(in her new robe, and Taylor. I'm not certain what the image on the TV is.

Yikes! This is what it looks like today on my back porch. The temp is below freezing for the second day in a row, and that is very rare here. So is the snow. Yet this year we have had two falls of this quantity.

Not that it matters much. By Monday this will all be gone, as it will get near or into the 40s again, and the snow and ice on the roads will all be memories.

It's been an unusual winter this year. We've had four power outages already, and two of them were lengthy. One was four days long. That is a first in our time here. And we still have a month and a half left of what we consider the windy months! Yikes again!

So the plants have found their way into our dining area, in the hopes that the cold hasn't already killed them. The fire is going, in hopes of forcing the thermostat to stay off for a while, and keep our house toasty. Otherwise we stay off the treacherous roads, and wait things out.