just after midnight...

the freezing rain has stopped for now...

we are to get snow tonight...

a mixture tomorrow with up to 8 inches of snow...

and the wind is supposed to pick up...

we have broken limbs already and the lines are encased so much with ice...

pray for us that we do not lose power...

and for everyone in the path of this winter storm...

Craig went out and took these photos...

he heard 3 load cracks of limbs coming down in the distance...

you can see here how much ice is on everything...

we will get more in the morning when the sun is up...

there is a major list of closings for tomorrow already...

remember the emergency personal responding to calls in all of this...

because there will always be someone who thinks they can get out in this...

Heading off to bed...

but before I go...

I wanted to share some of my new postcards...

I got these from ebay and I love them...

here are 2 new embossed Easter ones...

they really need cleaned...

and these...

some of the postcards are so clean and in near mint condition...

and then here is a sneak peek of my collection of large letter postcards...

I do collect the ones with family names on them...

but these are the ones I started out with...

I got so many new ones today...

and had fun putting them in my album...

acid free, of course...

there are so many different ones...

and maybe I can get some scanned to post on here so you can see them better...

and use them if you want...

the ice is about double what it was before...

but we still have power and so does Rebecca...

so we are good to go...

had my shower and washed my hair really good, just in case it doesn't happen for a couple of days...

schools are already cancelled for tomorrow, so there are some happy kids tonight...

glad it's good for someone...

Oh, the joy of winter...

it began this afternoon...

it was freezing rain and sleet mix...

it began freezing on the deck...

and the central air unit...

how I wish we were running this now instead of the furnace...

and after a couple of hours...

we had this...

the cars are covered...

but DH made it home...

40 minutes to drive 8 miles...

so while we were waiting on  him...

my idiot brave son...

agreed to get some shots for you...

so that's what we got before it got too dark...

this is just a taste...

tomorrow is the real stuff...

the ice is beautiful, but so dangerous...

I would rather have 20 inches of snow than one inch of ice...

I have Rebecca on speaker phone right now...

she is on her way home and I will talk to her until she gets there safe and sound...

they closed the mall early tonight...

and everything will probably be closed tomorrow and maybe the next day...

I am so used to being in all the time so it won't bother me...

but it will my DH! ...

and others who are used to getting out...

have a good one!

It's here...

we got up to sunny skies...

and this is how much snow we had left after yesterday's melting...

I thought we should get some "before" shots this morning... 

so we can compare later after all this ycuk goes through...

and then it began...

we are getting freezing rain right now...

our radar is all pink...

but it is moving pretty fast...

and it's heading north east...

up towards my buddies in Michigan...

just beginning to freeze on the siding...

and icing up on the surfaces...

so you will be seeing more photos like this...

and this...

these are taken with the flash on but I have it filtered...

I just used 4 layers of white cardstock folded and taped over my flash...

see the dew on the roses?...

and it's still low light enough for uplight to be seen...

and my little yellow crock bowl...

with snack food...

not mine...

Bebe's and Robbie's...

and it looks like I need to refill today...

there is a good chance that we could lose power...

so if you don't hear from me or Rebecca...

we are ok...

we are ready...

she has a wood stove...

and we have a gas cooking stove without electronic ignition...

I can turn the oven on 350 and boil one pan of water on top of the stove and keep it 70 in here with no problem...

we can cook and heat with it...

we have city water and stocked up on food...

we are good to go, have enough to get through Friday for sure...

DH only has to drive 8 miles to get home and if they see it's getting bad...

they will send him home early...

you all be safe out there...

maybe it won't be as bad as they were calling for in the beginning...

stay warm and upright...

Microsoft has fixed the problem...

and everything seems to be working fine now...

It was Microsoft's thing...

I have my security through a Microsoft program, so if you are running something else...

you wouldn't have seen it and you would have never known unless someone left you a comment...

or started raving like a lunitic (mwah) about it so early in the morning...

it only happened when you would click to enlarge a photo that began 3.bp.blogspot...

the 1,2,& 4 programs were ok...

these are the programs that the blogger uploader uses...

and it's a new beta program...

so when the big, nasty red screen came up saying MY WEBSITE was a bad place to be...

and scared the beejeebers out of me...

it meant BLOGGER'S PROGRAM AND THEIR SITE...

NOT MINE!

now you would think that blogger would have caught this and fixed it...

RIGHT?...

trying to contact blogger about anything is like pulling teeth...

almost impossible...

anyway...

that's what happened and hopefully it's over!

thank you everybody for helping me check this out...

and all your encouraging words...

I just cannot imagine not being able to blog...

and not being able to share clip art and vintage images...

I know I had a life before blogging and I know I could actually LIVE without it...

but I wouldn't want to and I would miss all of you way too much...

it's so hard to find girlies who understand clutter and rust and vintage...