Cold Night = Happy Happy Joy Joy

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Wow! It's almost 11 pm and it's 25 degrees. The wind chill is in the SINGLE DIGITS!!!! It's actually below freezing! It's windy, too. It's so windy we had to take down the awning over the back porch because it was coming unscrewed from the brick of the house. (That wind is coooooold, too!) Maddie was a little disappointed when we didn't let her go outside with us. She's pretty crazy about this cold.

I love it too, but I must confess I worry A LOT about the little birds and other people's pets. (I fear that there are some stupid pet owners out there that don't bring their pets indoors with such cold weather; weather we're clearly not used to around here). I'm trying not to think too much on it though. We did leave a lot of seed out for the birdies, so I guess that's all we can do for them.

I especially think about little "Fievel." (The baby bluebird Mom and I rescued a couple Easter's ago). I wonder if he ever grew into adulthood?

Mom is worrying herself silly over the pipes bursting tonight. I keep telling her we've taken all the precautions and not to borrow trouble, but she's still worried. (I really don't blame her with the pipe disaster we had last year, on top of everything else... and now Dad not even being here).

I was going to get up early tomorrow to try to get a school assignment, but if it rains at all tonight that would be a disaster waiting to happen.

I hope my father sends us some pics or video of the snow (Fulton, IL). It's 12 degrees there right now, with high gusts. They're expecting an inch of snow every hour until Noon tomorrow. So far they've received 8.9 inches.

I just wish he didn't have to go out in this. Where he works (Clinton, IA) they say they will NEVER take off for bad weather. (I guess to them work is far more important than human life). And Dad doesn't just drive to work and stay indoors all day. He's stuck OUTSIDE, and this man has hardly any meat on him. I know he's freezing his little nonexistent @ss up there.

I am so in love with this video:



I like this video, too:



When he said it was 75 degrees only yesterday, I just had to laugh. (I would have known exactly what state he lived in if all he said was that. Lol!)



This is totally unrelated to the weather, but I DEFINITELY had a visitor last night. I don't know if it was our resident ghost cat ("John Smith") or someone else, but I felt a definite depression on my bed behind my back. Either it was the cat, or someone's hand. Whatever, or whoever it was, it happened. It didn't really frighten me though.