Snow versus ice

Now there is white stuff falling from the sky again. We had white stuff falling a couple of times before and then there was a lot of white stuff piled up on the ground.  Then wet stuff fell and it got really warm so that us ponies could hardly stand it.  The wet stuff turned into water all over the ground and on top of the white stuff and the white stuff turned into shiny gray stuff.  Everything was turning into something else.  The creeks where the water runs that we drink got way high and over flowing and then overnight the water got hard and we couldn't drink it.  There was hard shiny gray water just about everywhere we looked.  We still had places with white stuff, so we walked on that, because everyone knows the number one horse rule is to never walk on shiny gray stuff  We walked on the white stuff to where the creek used to be and dug around with our hooves, but we couldn't find any water that wasn't hard.  The lady came out with a big stick that had a hard dark part at the top and she hit on the hard water and made banging noises.  Then the hard water fell apart and we could find water to drink again.  She went over to that Hunk Fusion's pasture and was walking on the white stuff and then  Fphumpf! --half the lady disappeared into the white stuff. Only the top half of the lady was sticking out.  The top half of the lady waved its arms and then came out of the white stuff backwards.  Then we could see the bottom half of the lady too and it was shiny.  So I guess she found water that wasn't hard and she didn't even have to bang around.  The white stuff that is falling now is covering over the shiny gray stuff.  We are waiting to see if that will be good or bad.  Sometimes it makes the ground better for walking, but sometimes it just hides the slippery parts.       .