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Sounds like birdie is terrified. I would put it in a safe place outside (where kitty can't get it)and watch to see if it recovers before I started any heroic measures to "treat" it.

I went out to get a bowl of snow to make some snow cream for my grandson. The snow is now covered with a solid sheet of ice. I cracked the ice, and there's wet snow underneath, but I could lift up a whole sheet of ice off the top of the snow!

It started for me on Saturday night...hit me HARD yesterday morning, and is all gone now.

I set the alarm and we were awake long before the sun came up. I got up to look outside, and saw that yes, it was still frozen out there...came back into the bedroom and told my husband, "We'd better plan to knock the snow off of the gazebo, or it might collapse." Minutes later, we heard it let go. My husband went out shortly after and shoveled a path across the back patio and out into the yard so our dogs could get out...we lost the Chihuahua in the snow! And the Corgi was up to snow over her short little stubby legs all the way up to her shoulders! My grandson refuses to have a

Freezing rain here in Powder Springs... Our gazebo collapsed very early this morning under about 8" of snow we got overnight.

Looking outside and knowing what's still to come, I think four of the five people (one is a three year old) will be staying put in the morning. We're all planning to get up by 6-ish to see how things look, but I feel pretty confident that no one will be going anywhere. I love my job, but Not enough to risk my life to get there to do it. I'm just hoping this isn't a three-day lingering event.

We have 3" of powdery snow! I couldn't even make a snowball. But I COULD make snow cream, and I did! YUM!

I'm more anxious than excited, but mostly because I fear it will be more of a nasty ice storm than any kind of pretty snow event. I'll be pleasantly surprised if it's just snow. We're prepared in any case. Radar is showing snow all over our area, but it must still be all up in the upper atmosphere, because nothing is coming down here yet!

We filled our feeders today with both black oil sunflower seeds and suet. The birds seem quite appreciative! But we try to always keep food out for them. Just a while ago we had what looked like a small woodpecker with a shock of red feathers on the top of his head pecking away at the food in the feeder. I called my son and husband to look--he was SO pretty! Oh, here's what we had at our feeder: Red-bellied woodpecker

I have The Weather Channel Desktop on my laptop, and the radar on there shows a sleet/ice mix moving into Carrollton.

I didn't laugh, and I'm not laughing. Not sure why you're saying I found humor in it.

Perhaps it is suggested that they "tone down their political rhetoric" before they "push some crazy over the edge"?

Oh, I'm not making them! We have taco soup! Though I do think my grandson would really like the sweet milk soup for children recipe, and I likely will try that one out sometime. It sounds like it will be an awful lot like a bread pudding. Yeah, I know. The other 198 recipes really do sound good!

Good news! I have recipes for you to make good use of all that bread and milk! Yesterday I found a book at a thrift store titled Twelve Months of Monastery Soups. Really cool book with around 200 soup recipes, all from Monastery kitchens. Anyway, last night I was reading through the recipes, and lo and behold, I found two recipes with milk and bread as primary ingredients! Since we're all about to be snowed in our houses for days and days with nothing but milk and bread to eat, I thought I'd share the recipes. Bread and Milk Soup (4 servings) Ingredients: 4 Tbs butter o

We had breakfast there this morning. It was very yummy. The biscuits were delish and the gravy had great flavor. The cooked-to-order eggs are such a good idea, because at most b-fast buffets, you just get scrambled. And the buffet is a breakfast meat-lover's dream! Ham, bacon, AND sausage. The ham was cut thick and so tender you could slice it with a fork. And th bacon was cooked crispy, just like I like it. Good value for breakfast! But be aware...seating is limited. I hope they do well!

You forgot to say >>insert whiny voice<< "YOU MEANIE OLD LIAR PANTS!!"

She's done an excellent job of illustrating all on her own throughout this thread, then turning around in the next breath and saying >>insert whiny voice<< "NOBODY SAID THAT, YOU MEANIE OLD LIAR PANTS!!!"

I don't need no 'spainin'. But let's just hope they're ALL wrong. And rest well, LL!

What we have here is a failure to communicate. A map with averages across an area indicates different amounts of snow/ice for, say, Atlanta and Blairsville. Neither are completely accurate. Both are predictions. All are based on things outside of Atlanta.

I agree with everything you said...except...at least on any weather news *I* watch, there's a map of the whole area, not just Atlanta. with color-coding they predict amounts across the whole area, not just Atlanta. But yes...it's just a prediction, and not terribly accurate with a snow/ice storm.

That would have been tragic! NO SOUTH!!

Yep. But BOTH times I watched, it was confusing. He said an earlier switch to sleet and showed a map covered with sleet. Then he showed a map covered with snow, and said 3-4" of snow. Yeah. Both times. It's all a guessing game anyway. What a job this guy's got, right? He can be wrong 90% of the time, and yet we still listen to him, and he still gets paid!

It was at the top of the newscast at 11:00.

I think we're going to have nasty ice storm. Hopefully it won't affect too many power lines though, and hopefully people will stay off the roads if possible until it's passed.