The recent storm was, to be honest, a little dismal. The six inches of snow that fell in our neighborhood was quickly supplanted by a mix of sleet and snow, followed by a deluge of sleet that fell heavy and relentless for nearly six hours. Meaning, atop it all, there was an additional five inches of sleet.
Not exactly great sledding weather. Or good for snowball fights. It was a bit of a wash.
After deep subfreezing temperatures overnight, what the morning's effort at shoveling revealed was a thick sheet of refrozen sleet that was near impenetrable to my heavy plastic snow shovel. I trudged out to the shed in the back, walking on a snow surface so solid that it bore my weight. There, I snagged a flat-bladed steel gardening shovel, which I used to slowly break apart the sleetfall covering my driveway.
It came up in sections, and...still having a bit of a child-mind...I thought to myself, golly, those would make nice little building blocks.
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