Chiberia

That's what they are calling Chicago now.  I saw it on television, so it must be true.  They showed a shot of the Chicago River frozen over.  They said an icebreaker went through earlier in the day, but the river froze right back up.  It looked kind of patchy to me, I wouldn't recommend walking on it just yet.

We only got down to two below last night, and it stayed in the positive single digits all day.  They predict that tomorrow will be the same, except it won't feel as cold because there is supposed to be less wind.  I did some snow plowing today, and it wasn't so bad here in the woods, but it must have been brutal in the open areas.  I've only been plowing for a half hour or so a day, and that will have to do.  We both have 4WD, so we can get in and out regardless, but I like to keep it clear in case somebody else needs to get in.  Our garbage pickup was a day late, and we haven't gotten any mail delivery yet this week.  I always plow the part they use first, but again, it must be worse out on the open road. It seems that everybody in Michigan has been getting lots of lake effect snow, but we haven't gotten anything to speak of here since the eight inches or so that we got on Monday.

I don't have a cell phone, but I think I can access the Cloud from my desktop computer.  I've never gotten around to looking into that because I'm happy with the way I store my photos now.  Anything that I care about gets backed up on a CD.  I suppose that won't help me if our house burns down but, if that happened, losing my photos would be the least of my problems.