Winter

I went for a walk this morning. It was icy. Luckily only four cars/trucks passed me during the whole walk, and I was able to basically trudge down the middle of the road where it wasn't so slick. It was beautiful though, despite the "rain" falling from the trees, which was just little pieces of ice breaking off and falling down. The sound was really musical.
When I got back from my walk, all three boys were outside, and Jay took the four-wheeler (with plow) to the ice to see about clearing off our ice rink. It's slushy/wet/heavy/yuck, but once the top layer of stuff is removed, there's an inch or so of water on top-- if we could clear it off and have that water on top freeze, we'd have ourselves some slick ice-skating ice.