Ice-atopia

Yes ice and lots of it. Walking is a exercise in tiny steps, finding things to hang on to and finding rough or snow areas to walk in along the edges of the ice. Once we get to the upper part of the driveway we get to the gravel and one can breathe a sigh of relief.

We warm up snow melts and wa-la by evening it refreezes.

This is our driveway.

Not to mention the ice on the way to the barn. The ice is also up around the the gate to the chicken coop and the well house. Puts a new view on the old song: 'Slip Sliding Away.'

Dear hubby doesn't like me to tell to much of our personal business so I won't say he has had his three times is the charm on falling on the ice.

Hope all of you out there in the winter storms and cold temps can keep warm.

Some of the temperatures remind me of growing up in Milwaukee, WI. -45 during the day walking to school in the 1960's. Then in North West Iowa in the 1980's minus 55 and lower and we we took to the children sledding when it finally warmed up to -17 one Saturday. We had two months of that with over an inch of ice on the inside around our windows when it was over. The next winter the old 1907 house had been better insulated.

This was our life saver for staying warm in MO. and IA. It heated a 1800 square foot house with no problem at all. A big log of hardwood would last all night.