The Ice storm of 2009

Hello again,
Been lots of fun here in the last few days.
We had a winter storm earlier in the week. It sleeted for a while, so we had little ice balls all
over the place. Then we had a little freezing rain. It was not as bad as it was last winter.

The dogs are hilarious out in the yard. When the sleet was falling , it did not stick to it self , so you could kick it around. The first time Jewell went out in it the squirrel was on the fence. She ran
out into the yard and then slide into the fence. She was fine, didn't faze her at all. She kept trying
catch that stupid squirrel. Later she was running along the fence line and would stop , but she would slide and the ice pellets would fly around her. She kept doing it so I know she was playing.

The animals are finally getting over the stomach virus that everyone , including all of us, had.
We took Jewell in to get her shots, and we asked the vet about it , she said that there area lot of stomach viruses that you can give or get from your animals. Not really much to do about it except clean up until it is gone.

We have discovered one thing that is good. I had read in one of my groups, that a cat breeder would use pine word shavings for cat litter. I got a big bag of it at the farm store, it cost $5.
We did that two weeks ago and still have more than half of the bag left. It is a lot neater than the clay litter and there is almost no smell.

The kids have been home from school since Monday because of the ice. The side streets are bad, the main streets are clean. The buses have not been able to get through. Also , they have to make sure the school grounds are safe for the kids. Don't want anyone walking around to classes and fall and get hurt.

We really are not that well prepared for a lot of ice, snow , whatever , we only have it for a month or so, if that much . It would not be cost effective to be prepared like they are in the
snow belts.

Well , I need to go do some stitching on some of my stuff , more later.