The weather outside is freakin cold.

While Urban Ranger is up at Lantern Waste enjoying the always winter and never Christmas freakishness in the midwest (watch the thundersnow video in her post of today--it's great!!)...

And baking for the awesome and enthusiastic students who came to bring CHRISTmas, just to spite the White Witch...
We're enjoying some freak weather of our own, desert-style. That's ICE on my front walk, at 3 in the afternoon. I think it's from the sprinklers rather than a storm, but it's still very weird, for here...
and pretty, since it's only in the shade and not on the roads, or the power lines...
I know it's ice because I've seen it before, just not here...

I'm thinking the daylily may have to start over. It's coming up a little too soon...
if it's this cold in the afternoon...

And it may be this cold here, but it's colder in Juarez (8 degrees this morning), where not enough people have enough house, or clothing, to keep out the cold.

Give an electric blanket or two here