Cabin Fever

I'm starting to feel it.

Must.

Get.

Out.

Of.

This.

House!

Nobody has left these premises since I returned from choir practice on Monday night. We're experiencing a freak ice storm in South Texas, and basically nobody is moving. The girls just spent the day in their blanket sleepers!

TxDOT has closed the I-10 and thereby stranded thousands of travelers and truckers. Some of the families slept in their car until today when a church in the area opened its doors.

Tall buildings in the city are dangerous places for passers-by and cars parked to closely as icicles and sheets of ice as large as windowpanes are falling from the facades.

It was fun around here for the first day...a morning expedition garnered many treasures for cold, red little fingers -- there are now a half-dozen leaf-shaped ice molds taking up residence in our freezer. The girls spent 15 minutes on the deck scraping ice to have a snowball fight until Cuddlebug fell flat on her fanny.

And now Fifi is seriously grieving the warm-up that is on the way. I don't know how she'll ever be happy marrying and buying the house next door as she's planned -- she seems like a cold-weather creature to me.