And it looks like this:

It has been freezing or near freezing temperatures in Houston for over a week now.  My birdbath is frozen solid.  We have a bucket on the back porch that is frozen.  This is just not right!  We live on the Gulf of Mexico where it’s warm most of the time and dang near too hot all of the other time.  It’s too cold to go outside to play, so Cat and I both have cabin fever.  Luckily school started back up for her, so at least she has something to do for those two days of the week.  Me?  I am staying busy trying not to shiver to death.  I have thin skin from living down here for so long that I can’t take this weather too much longer.  I love a good cold night to get some good sleep in but this is just getting ridiculous!

Here is John putting up all of our tackiest old sheets and blankets that we could find so that we could cover our plants.  They also have thin skin and can’t take this arctic air.  I feel their pain.  But I am a little bit luckier…my blanket has a heater!