Project: How can you make your backyard look like mine in the featured photo?

Instructions: Start with an evening temperature of 54°F.  Cover with water for three hours. Next, reduce temperature to 36°. Cover with an inch of sleet for about one hour. When the layer of sleet is complete, reduce the temperature again to 32° and cover with an inch of wet snow. Finally, to solidify the layers so they can’t be removed from you driveway or sidewalks, gradually reduce the temperature overnight to 12°F.  For good measure, you may throw in some winds with gusts up to 35 or 40 miles per hour. That’s it.

Alternatively, move to Wisconsin where all this will be done for you automatically.

Drive carefully.