Snow

Inspired title, eh?

This was my view out the back of the house this morning. Fantastic. Our Brazilian exchange student thought he had landed on Mars.

Until I handed him a shovel. Then it was more like a

gu·lag (gū'läg)
n.

1. A network of forced labor camps in the former Soviet Union.
2. A forced labor camp or prison, especially for political dissidents.
3. A place or situation of great suffering and hardship, likened to the atmosphere in a prison system or a forced labor camp.

[Russian Gulag, from G(lavnoe) u(pravlenie ispravitel'no-trudovykh) lag(ereĭ), Chief Administration (of Correctional Labor) Camps.]

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