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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.

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.

Birds, online church, reading, walking in Hawaii, Night at the Museum 3, thick layer of ice, blinking power but no outage, Mississippi iced over, outdoor sledding, fast is over... updates coming soon...