The Ice Patch

The Ice Patch

We survived the cold so far. Saturday we woke up early in hopes of seeing snow. But sadly there was just a bit of sleet on the car. But according to the TV the snow was just down the road. So... road trip! We drove all over looking for snow. We finally found snow on the roof tops in Ocala. And on our way back we did get to see some falling out of the sky in Ocklawaha. I didn't get any good pictures of it though, so Chris left the sprinkler on last night and made a great circular patch of ice in the front yard. All the neighbors drove by and looked at it and the kids had fun running through it and the dog tried to eat it.
Up Date on Chris

Chris's hand is healing pretty good from falling in the fire on New Years Eve. I took a picture of it cause it's so gross. It looks like leprosy. Hopefully it will be gone soon.

Pork Fajitas

And on that note... We figured out some thing really good to do with left over pork. We made fajitas. All we did was cut up some onions and a red and green pepper. Than we sauteed them and set them aside. Heated the pork in the same pan then added the onions and peppers back to the pan. We put some fajita seasoning in it and added some water then put it on tortillas. It was really good. We could taste the lime in the seasoning. It was very diffrent and good. You could probably do this with any left over pork. We used left over smoked pork butt.

Cold

The Cold!

It has been cold here in Florida. You can tell because unlike up north where snow blankets the trees and bushes we have blankets on our trees and bushes in hopes they don't all freeze. The picture above is not our house but is a good example of covers. some are white and some are black but I think this guy got every bush he could reach.

We chose to wait to plant our blue berries and it's a good thing that we did. We still don't have much of anything in the yard so we didn't cover anything. We had some small palms but we decided if they freeze so be it.

It is almost a crisis situation here in Central Florida. We are not use to more than two or three days of temps that fall below 32 degrees. Some schools, down in Orlando, had no heat this morning for the kids because of power outages. Most of our kids had to search for cloths that would keep them warm enough. Almost no one owns a down coat and thermals, what's that? And then once warm cloths were found, threats of death had to be used to get the kids to where them.

We have several homeless people who live in the national forest, a place called tent city, I prey all of them found better shelter. I saw one who must have wondered into town to escape the cold. I hope he found a better place than the empty gas station he was planing to stay at.

Also there are fish dropping dead left and right at the beaches and inter coastal water way. I worry about our more exotic creatures. I did see a pair of sand hill cranes today. I wonder if they have enough since to fly further south. The creatures in the springs will do well because the water stays a balmy 72 degrees year round. I bet they are packed with manatees.

There is rain predicted for Friday night and more cold weather. Hopefully it's not going to be snow or freezing rain I don't think anyone would know what to do. And the roads....don't get me started.