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Oh my god, I totally forgot about that! My mother used to do that when I was a kid. Wow, what a blast from the past. Another "treat" was taking a piece of bread and spreading wet brown sugar on it (yeah, we were pretty poor).
It protects underground stuff from pipes to tree roots from freezing.
It looks pretty and makes the whole world quiet.
It causes the population of weenies to get out of the North and leave us hardy souls alone.
It drives you inside so you can sit by the fire and plan your garden.
If it weren't for snow I'd get no exercise between raking leaves and planting the garden.