Cold

I know what you're thinking- two posts in one day?! It turns out I have some extra time today because church was cancelled. It's too snowy and cold to get to church safely. We've had crazy weather here for the past few weeks. Earlier this week we had some freezing rain that encased everything in ice and made everything slick and then it started snowing Thursday afternoon and didn't stop until late Saturday night. Andy has already shoveled three or four times since Christmas and we're running out of places to put the snow. One of the unusual things about Omaha (or maybe just the area where we live) is that we get very strong winds and we're at the top of a hill so we have nothing below us to block the wind. We get some huge snow drifts when it snows because the wind blows it around so much. Here's a few pictures we've taken this week.

This is Andy standing at the end of our driveway. It snowed some more after this was taken.

This is our neighbor's house. You can see how the wind has blown huge drifts around. It snowed quite a bit more after we took this and the snow completely covered the porch. They are out of town and Andy was nice enough to go out and shovel their driveway and porch so they could get in when they get home. He's so thoughtful.

Ice on our Christmas lights. Everything was encased in ice.

I don't think our tomato plants are going to make it. What do you think?