I thought the storm on Wednesday night was bad but the storm that hit on Thursday night was down right scary! I don't think I have ever felt so apprehensive. We were watching the news because they kept posting weather updates. They showed the storm front and we were under a tornado watch for several hours. We were considering whether or not to leave the house for a safer place, like a hotel. The weather people said that people in mobile homes should leave for a safer, more substantial structure if we went to a tornado warning. The TV kept going out. The wind was howling and the rain was unbelievable. But I didn't want to leave the animals.

I was afraid the new alpaca shelter would blow over or the goat shelter would blow away. Both of them held up well. We had a big dead tree in the eastside alpaca pasture in the back. It was blown down. I think the good Lord was protecting us. That tree was huge but it did not do any damage. It was as if it was laid down perfectly. It did not hit the power lines, the fence or the big alpaca shelter. All of the big alpacas had been confined to the westside of the pasture since Tinker and Prince got hurt on the barbed wire. So they were not in the path of the fallen tree either. For that, I say Praise the Lord!

The snow level was supposed to get down to 3000-4000', but we did not get any snow. It fell on all the mountains around us and it is fairly cold. There was ice in the water buckets the last couple of days. But today it was sunny and beautiful again even if it was cold. Tonight the sky is clear and all the stars are especially bright.

We have had a new cat wondering around. It looks like Mikey, gray tiger striped. But it has a white chest and its two hind feet are white. Mikey has no white on him. We seem to have a new resident roadrunner too. I saw him flitting around Little Buck and Donald's pen today.