Just an FYI for those who consider us TEXANS sissies. When I went out on deck to take pictures of REOs, blue sunny skies all day, the bird bath is still partially frozen. It's had 7 hours of direct sun but not frozen solid enough to warrant several trips out with boiling water. (Thank you Mother Nature for calming the winds so REOs wouldn't blow off of deck railing.

Yes, it's happened more than I want to admit but that was before I discovered "tacky putty.")
Afternoon, fine REO Folk. DH, who has a routine colonoscopy early Wed. morning is starting fluids, jello, etc, only, tonight, about 12 hours early, so I'm on my own tonight for dinner. I'll look for something that doesn't smell up the house with "YUMMY." (He's starting early because he can't start the major clean out meds, at prescribed time, because he'll be working till evening tomorrow night.) For you younguns...... the clean out meds make everyone need adult diapers for the last 12 hours!!!!! (I started getting colonoscopies and needing canes, occasionally, in my late 20s, so I ain't got much "pride" left. And that's when I could still toss a bale of hay over the fence virtually one handed.)
Hugs, Feisty Alice
{edit} So we've gone from sweating our asses off to considering freezing pipes in a matter of a day.