Snice

Snow on the ground is cool.  Ice on the ground is not awesome.  Here, on the eighty-seventh day of January, it looks like we have pretty snow on the ground, but if you walk out there you find it has melted a little and frozen, and melted a little and frozen, and now what we have is...snice.  

I do not like snice.

Snice is nasty.  It's ugly, hard, crunchy, slick, and filthy.  There are little yellow holes of dog pee in it.  Bits of dead leaves and pieces of trash that have blown in from windstorms are entombed in there.  I put a blindfold on my life-size Jeremy Renner cardboard cutout so he doesn't have to look at it.

I'm trying to be optimistic about the snice.  Even though there's no visible evidence right now, I know there are bulbs under there.  The snice will melt and water the ground, and there will be flowers soon.  Hang in there, my friends.  Beautiful things are coming.