Loud Snow

We got up this morning, and first things first, we went to church.  Of course, with a morning like this, it was online service!  We weren't going anywhere today.  The warnings were out there, and the ice was still falling, and of course all church services in the Northeast Georgia area were pretty much cancelled with an abundance of caution and so on.  We sat together and watched Free Chapel's service, which had a great message rooted in Micah 7:8.  And then after that we sat and watched our own KidPak online services, which was a lot of fun as always.  Sitting and watching church on a television always brings me back to 2020 and that whole season.  Even though in this case we were physically restrained by the elements.  Our Miracle Prayer Service will be next week so we'll all meet again in person shortly.

We had a delicious post-fasting breakfast this morning.  Mom treated us to some really delicious pancakes!  

In the meantime, I was sneaking out to see what the ground covering was like out there on the back deck, and it was snow-covered, but with this thick layer of ice on top.  Translation:  this is the loudest snow!

I went out there a few times today because we were taking care of all those birds.  Each time things would freeze over, I'd sneak out there with more and more seeds - there were so many birds out there on that back porch, more than I've ever seen out there.  For a good bit today, I was just sitting there with the camera snapping solo portraits of various birds.  Here are just a few of our visitors:

These poor mourning doves have lost feathers literally frozen to their bodies!

It was a quiet day of course.  We all stayed in - there was rain throughout the day, which basically meant there was no point in going out there.  Some of the neighborhood kids could be heard sledding out there.  But it was kind of unlike any other winter storm, because it was raining.  And then that rain all immediately froze, and the end result is us being stuck until maybe tomorrow afternoon.  And that's okay, because we still have power here.  It was far from catastrophic, which of course was warned of us earlier.  Not to say other areas did not see catastrophe:  we've seen pictures from Mississippi that were truly awful.  The ice there was just crazy damaging.  Here, the power flickered maybe once, but no outage.

I was walking on the treadmill watching "Blue Hawaii," yet another Elvis movie on my marathon.  I'm approaching 60% completion on this virtual marathon from Tupelo to Memphis, and it's been great fun watching all these old Elvis movies, most of them for the first time.  This one here, "Blue Hawaii," I've seen twice, because it might be my favorite Elvis movie at this point.  I've only seen eight or so, which means there are plenty to go!

Tonight's movie was "Night at the Museum 3," which closed out our trilogy and cemented a future trip to an actual museum maybe this spring.  We might go to Tellus, or it could be Fernbank.  But it'll be fun to go visit a museum.  Nate hasn't been to either, so we could make a day of it and have some fun!

We read tonight, briefly.  I wasn't feeling well tonight - it's been a weekend of fluttering heart for me.  Might be dietary, but I'm not too sure.  What I do know is that I went to bed tonight after reading with Maddie from the Discworld for a bit.  We can all sleep in tomorrow, because everything is closed or opening late.  I don't plan on driving.  The road is so thick with ice in front of our house that you can skate on it!