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Layla ([personal profile] layla) wrote2005-04-22 10:15 pm

Legend of the Undersnow

Day 32. I am beginning to suspect the natives' stories of an element existing under the snow -- the legendary undersnow, or "ground" -- may not be the child's fancies I at first believed. On several occasions I have even glimpsed this fabled "fifth element" (the other four being snow, ice, water and mud). Should I doubt my own senses, or believe in that which Reason claims to be impossible?

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The driveway is awash in slush. We almost didn't make it tonight, and we'd better get either a LOT of melting over the weekend, or a good freeze before Monday ... otherwise we may have to call in to work Stuck.

Even though it doesn't really look like it, we've actually lost a lot of snow over the last couple of weeks. Even in the woods, it's so soft and shallow that it's possible to wade through it without too much trouble -- which would have been impossible a month ago; you'd've sunk up to your waist.