Last ice?

I'm seriously hoping that last week was our last ice, anyway.  This is my frozen birdbath from last Sunday, and down below, ice pellets on the table.  It's hard for me to imagine that less than 24 hours after that last blog post, in which I was rejoicing over how everything was blooming and beautiful, an ice storm swept through and killed everything.  All the gorgeous Bradford pears because brown and lifeless.  My quince became brown and lifeless.  It was so sad after they had one day to bloom and be beautiful.  The new growth on my roses is all dead, also, but roses are pretty hardy.  They should come back.

Actually, the Bradfords are attempting something of a comeback.  They're not as pretty as they were, but white blossoms are peeking out of the brown dead blossoms, so they may salvage some of their Spring bloom.  The quince is past blooming now.  There are only two or three flowers visible on it so the ice really killed it's blooms.  It's leafing out nicely though, so no overall damage to the plants.  And the three little peaches continue to put on new leaves, so they fully survived the winter and weren't hurt by the latest ice storm either.

The centers of the two aloe vera that stayed outside all winter look like they're going to survive also!  That I wouldn't have believed.  They've taken so many hits this year. You can see this one for yourself though.  Alive and thriving in the center.

The lawn people were supposed to replace my shrubbery last Monday, but since it was icy and the temperature never got above 26 they didn't show.  Plus I imagine freezing weather's not the ideal time to plant things.  I'll have to call them this week and see when they plan to do it.    

I had two migraines this weekend.  Yes, TWO!  I'm trying to figure out who to complain to about that.  I had one that started about 6:00 pm Friday evening.  I took the Relpax that the doctor prescribed for me last June, and I'd have to say it worked.  That one on Friday was starting off to be a killer of a migraine, with vision loss in both eyes and my right hand and arm going numb.  But the pain never got unbearable, thanks I think to taking the Relpax as soon as the visual loss occurred.  I went to bed and slept 10 hours.  Then I got up Saturday, had my coffee and yogurt and INH, and was doing the morning newspaper crossword puzzle about 9:00 am, when I lost vision in my left eye!  Damn it, damn it, DAMN IT!  Or anyway, that's what I was thinking.  So I took another Relpax and then had to take a second one 2 hours later to keep the pain under control.  Still, the Relpax worked better than the old hydrocodone I've been taking.  But I lost all of Saturday.  I wasn't in unbearable pain, but I was feeling kind of yucky and disconnected and lethargic.  I watched TV on and off all day since reading doesn't work with migraines.  So I feel like I lost half my weekend.  I feel fine today though.  Not even much of a migraine hangover.  Of course I slept 10 hours last night too.  And even remembered to change my clocks.

Today I'm catching up on all the chores I didn't have the energy for yesterday.  I filled the bird feeders and the house finches, sparrows and juncos are all happy little campers.  And Addy's happy to be able to sun outside.  I seeded one more little pot of cat grass.  I grow cat grass for the cat-kids in the winter since they have none outside to chew on.  I say one last pot because my grass outside should start growing soon, or anyway as soon as we get moisture.  We've had less than an inch of rain here where I am so far this year, and usually we have about 6 inches by now.  Much as I love the sun, we need some rain.   

Had to share this last picture.  This is what I did last Sunday, during the ice storm.  Yes, Yes I did.  No, I haven't been replaced by an alien clone.  I baked cookies that I made from scratch and used a cookie press to form.  Just goes to show you truth really is stranger than fiction.