Last night, the last of the ice in front of the barn was melted. This after 5 days in the 50s and 60s. The ice has been there since the ice storm a couple weeks ago - a sheet 4-6inches thick and 15 feet wide. So now if I fall down, its just my normal clumsiness at fault. :^)

We had strong thunderstorms move through last night, with quite a lightning show for a short time. Long enough to make the lights go out briefly. Then the winds started. At about 11PM, the electricity went out, then came back on around 2AM. Thank you to all the people who work in such conditions to restore our power!

This morning, we had pieces of slate in the backyard, and an area about 3x4 on the house roof that had damaged or missing slates. Chuck thinks he can fix it himself, and I won't pitch a fit about it since its on the lower corner of the roof, reachable from a ladder. I don't like him crawling around on the roof anymore.
Its still quite blustery - like a March day. Looks like the temperatures will continue to slide downward over the nest few days, toward more normal for February. I guess this was our January thaw - just a little later than normal.