Global Warming, What?

This is Texas, people...and I don't mean the Panhandle.

A Texas Blizzard

It has now snowed twice here this winter. Snow is very unusual for our area. We get ice, but not snow. And it never, ever sticks. So when it started coming down pretty good a couple of weeks ago, the kids and I bundled up and headed out. It was the kind of snow that can literally happen only once in a childhood, and we weren't about to miss it.

Here are some fun photos we took that day, in no particular order.

Snow Day!

Snow in this part of Texas is always such an unbelievable sight.

And of course it never lasts long enough to really enjoy.

So I knew I had to snap some pics before it all melted away.

And I just about froze my hiney to do it! But I couldn't let the snow get away without showing it to y'all! Enjoy the day!

Rain, rain, go away...and a request for prayer

It's raining here again. This has been a very rainy October. The weather has been confusing and I've even seen some things blooming, thinking it's spring.

This has been the view for quite a while. The sunny days are so few and far between that they're forgotten almost as soon as they're gone.

Our family seems to be completely recovered from the H1N1. Tristan's was trying to turn into pneumonia, but we caught it in time and were able to knock that out with some Zithromax. There is still some lingering coughing, and maybe some extra fatigue on long days, but we're so much better off than we were a couple of weeks ago. I appreciate all the comments, emails, and prayers. They all worked to cheer us up in those dreary days.

There's another family out there in blogdom that desperately needs some prayers. Jennifer, better known as MckMama, and her husband have a baby that's really struggling health-wise right now. Stellan was born with SVT (if you want all the nitty gritty on SVT and to read Stellan's story, please visit Jennifer's blog) and he's fighting a bad case of it right now. He's in the hospital and really needs some prayers! And to add insult to injury, today is his 1st birthday. Not the party his momma and daddy were hoping for, I'm sure.







I hope all my bloggy friends and their families are staying well!

Love,

Well, it used to be a hay barn

We had some wild weather here this past Tuesday evening. I drove home from work while some golf ball-sized hailed pounded our Suburban. If I ever get that thing washed, it's likely we'll find some good sized dings. When I finally got home I was greeted by a tree in our driveway. I had to call my manly man to come out in the pouring rain to move it out of the way. We haven't looked at our house to see if the house incurred any roof damage yet but we need to. I heard the next day that we had straight-line winds in this area in excess of 70m.p.h. No tornadoes that I know of, but it turns out you don't need tornadoes to do some real damage.

This used to be my in-laws hay barn.

Now for those of you that don't know this, my husband and I own a wee spit of land in a vast hay field. That hay field is owned by Ron's parents. And so is this barn...or what's left of it.

Some of the stray pieces were carried to the neighbor's pasture. This piece used to be a wall.

This barn is just west of Trixie's stall where she stays at night. She had already been put up when all this happened. I'm so glad she obviously didn't try jumping from her pen again because she was spooked. I guess maybe she just hunkered down and waited it out. It had to make a racket, don't ya' think?

Wild and wonderful

This is the scenery that greeted me when I stepped out to snap some pictures of our sunset last night. A little scary, but very beautiful!