Yesterday was the ice storm and very low temperature so I didn't venture out. Last night the electricity was out for 2 hours, and I did worry about the torts in the shed...but....so today I figured I should feed out there...so, I wondered, can I thaw out Mary's lettuces so she won't know they are frozen??? I cooked a spaghetti squash and away I went...I saw and felt that the deck was covered in ice, can't unzip the greenhouse to check on my plants, cuz the zipper is frozen...I imagine those 2 hours got pretty cold in there...damn it! Unfortunately I could hear that little electric heater running...I reached out to the metal handrail noticing it was huge with frozen water at the same time I was stepping carefully into the snow covered stairs...holy sh*t! Not snow ICE and it was a slide. The piled ice was even with the stairs all the way down...slick, cold, frozen water and just like my workmans comp accident, the stairs weren't covered in snow, it was ice and my foot went out and I slid on my butt down the slide that usta be 7 stairs...clutching the last of the tortoise food in my arm...bang smash!! I landed at the bottom w/out breaking anything...now I'm aching and cold and pissed off...the walkway was slick with ice the pens were slick with ice and...and..then I couldn't get into the shed!!!!! the door had serious ice about 2 feet up the people door. Oh sh** I panicked now. I went to the doggie door... I have had to shimmy into that way before...before the ice...the door was buried in ice...around the other side and again that doggie door was buried in ice... All the sudden things got more serious than I thought. I am holding the last of the tortoise food and it's frozen, I have a bowl full of cooked squash and I have to feed. Oh what to do...so I walked around the house (no stairs) it was all frozen hard and dangerous for this old lady to walk on...and I slid and fumbled grabbing anything...and as I lay on the ice trying to get my breath...I saw my sister's 3 foot crow bar!!! So revived I grab it and slide my way to the shed...The damn thing is so heavy I really can't control it...but I have a large roofing hammer and I start breaking the ice...it was hard for me...but I'm Wonder Woman as far as my tortoises are concerned...so I got the door open...all the heating stuff and the basking lights and che's were all on... and it was colder than hell in there...I pulled Mary out of her sleeping box and pushed her in front of the food, she felt cold to the touch. I don't expect her to eat...the other tortoises were under basking lights but cold to the touch. I didn't take pictures cuz I'm sore...torts are cold so I brought them in am put both in the warm bath tub...to be continued
