1st Ice Storm

It started raining last night and then temps dropped to below freezing. Oklahoma is known for ice storms rather than a ton of snow. The ice tends to wreak havoc at times downing power lines and putting 1000's in the dark for days on end. Today we woke to a sheet of ice on everything, so far no power issues, but Akins is puzzled by the whole event and eating most of it...off the car, the leaves, and well most anything else he can put in his mouth before I can stop him. Since he often is a little sweaty it seems he is never bothered by the temps in fact seems more comfortable with the cool weather. Ice is one of his favorite things - perhaps because he was deprived of it for the first 3 years, so he thinks this is the best thing. Yesterday unrelated to the ice we had a power outage (no idea what happened) but I was reminded of Mom and I holed up for two days without any power except for the generator I was advised to purchase, I was motivated to get it fired back up. Having grown up on generator power Akins was totally excited when the thing finally started to roar. I guess he will be pleased if this storm lasts and the power goes out so we can use the generator! I on the other hand do not think it is such a cool thing.