Wormcicles

Drat!! and Damn!! and any other kind of profanity I can think of, okay?

We've had a huge flock of robins in our back yard that have been digging in the ground finding their lunch and eating what bugs have come alive in the warm temperatures lately. Occasionally you would see them manage to pull a worm out of the ground and then squabble over who was going to get to eat it. It started snowing yesterday afternoon, and it didn't take long before all the green grass was about covered. The robins remained, puffing themselves up to try to stay warm and continuing their hunt, but now for wormcicles pulled out through the snow instead of the green grass.

As of this morning I don't know what the poor birds will eat because we got 9 inches of snow overnight and it's still snowing. They were all sitting in the flowering crab tree this morning. Maybe they'll have to exist on the fermented crab apples that are still attached to the tree. I just hope they don't fall out of the branches down into the snow in a drunken stupor because they could get frostbite.

We met Bob & Carol down at the Watering Hole last night for supper. We had thought of going into the City just for a change, but by that time it was too nasty to go any farther than the Watering Hole. We were there for a total of about 90 minutes and when Carol went out to have a cigarette the visibility had become so bad it was time to go home. Fortunately it was still light out at that time, or we wouldn't have been able to see the driveway to turn and would have gone in the ditch. It was truly ugly out.

As of this afternoon all the interstates and major highways going all directions out of town are officially closed. The highway patrol isn't allowing any traffic out of town.

When will it end???