Word of the Day -- Ice

Okay, this word isn't so much chosen because it is odd, or rare, or interesting, as so much as it gives me a chance to complain about the...

Ice -- frozen water; or a stretch or sheet of frozen water.

We have been inundated with ice of late.  Starting Wednesday morning the skies opened up and it got to freezing, got to sleeting, and it got to snowing.   Mostly it was sleet and freezing rain however, and that made getting outside problematic.  We are on a bit of a hill and due to poor prior planning, the woodpile is halfway down the hill.  Basically I had run out of wood up near the house and was planning to move more closer when the storm came.  Yesterday in an attempt to get some wood I slipped and proceeded to slide down the gravel driveway.  I mention that it's gravel so that you know there were a lot of "bumps" along the way.  Needless to say it is hard to sit down today...

I love snow.  I frigging hate frigging ice.

Calamity Hill