Ice is Still Here

Good grief.  Political situations as they are, I need to clarify that I'm talking about literal ice, which is something that happens when water freezes.  It just so happens that there's a government agency set up twenty four years ago with the same acronym.  It has been in the news lately because the state of Minnesota decided to hit the self-destruct button, and as much as I enjoyed visiting that state a few years ago, the images coming from Minneapolis not exactly helping the "Explore Minnesota" tourism campaign.

No, in fact I'm talking about actual frozen water.  Ice.  And yes, that ice is solid, thick, and still out there all over the place.  We had it in front of the garage, and in that shady spot where we were skating on the road yesterday.  It's in the parking lots, along the roads, and on the roads in curvy spots in the shade, and pretty much everywhere the sun doesn't touch much.  It's so solid and stuck there, and you certainly can't walk on some of it.  Apparently, the temperatures are going to be frequently freezing here, which means that ice will be with us probably tomorrow too.  We were driving a little more carefully today, the ice skating rink is still in front of us on Riverstone Drive here, but there are other places where the ice is prevalent too.  Even though the sun is deceptively shining, it's still cold enough that the ice is still there. 

It's funny how quickly we can get acclimated to colder temperatures.  We're all sitting here, looking forward to that time upcoming where the temperatures will surge to a warm and sunny fifty degrees!  

Maddie was back at Free Chapel College today, and of course their retreat was cancelled up in White County.  One reason for this is that much of White County is still without electricity currently.  Despite this, the students still had some celebrating to do with a little gathering this afternoon after classes.  I picked her up a little later, and we went home to stay.  Nothing going on tonight, and really I prefer that we not drive anywhere.  There's no further precipitation, but the ground is just so frozen and refreezing and so on - it's just safer to stay home.  

We have our puzzle to work on at home - it's a Christmas gift I got for Mom, or at least one of three puzzles I picked up for her.  These are called "Odd Pieces," and it's a unique puzzle that the three of us started recently, and got to work on some more today.  It's a unique puzzle, and we'll let you know how things end up.  But right now I'm enjoying it.

Tonight we started to watch a show called "Wonder Man," which premiered tonight.  It's the latest Marvel release, and the first episodes are really good.  That will probably be our viewing for the week.  Tonight's reading continues from "The Fifth Elephant" as well, which has been great to re-visit.  I remember very little of this one, but we're down underground with the dwarfs right now, and soon to go off and visit the vampires.  Vimes and his team are far from Ankh-Morpork on this mystery, and it's been fun to visit this neighboring country in the Discworld.

We said our prayers, and it was time for some other reading.  Lately I've been in the book of Isaiah, and also reading Pastor Franklin's latest book, "The Power of Short Prayers."  It's a good read, easy to get through one chapter at a time here before bed.  

It's been a good day.  Quiet, but that's okay!