the sleet begins

 When I got up this morning the birds were waiting at the feeder so I bundled up and took feed out to them.  The sleet was coming down sideways and it stung my face.  The wind was roaring in the trees. The feeder lid was frozen solid so I scattered the seed onto the hard packed sleet.

The blue is snow, red is ice, yellow and green is rain.  Dorothy stayed home from work today. It's twenty miles over hill and around curve to her employment so it was too risky.

it's almost here

I've been busy getting ready for the blizzard:

• got candles  - check
• got lamp oil - check
• got flash light batteries - check
• got enough kerosene to burn for 4 days - check (in case we lose power)

Then Dorothy came home from work and informed me we weren't ready for the storm. "We can't be trapped in the house during a winter storm without donuts," she said.  So it was off to Wal-mart to fight our way through the crowd to get donuts.




This is the radar image at 10:40. You can see the storm approaching from the west. The black lines are the boundaries between Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, and Missouri.