I've been out there shoveling. It's a very different experience by daylight: more cheerful, like. I did more than we need for the dipping-things-in-chocolate party that we're having later, i.e. more than enough to allow people to come and go on foot. Probably in my next bout I will make the driveway driveable and clear the sidewalk to the next driveway.
Before coming in I walked up and down the street to say hello to other shovelers, and to clear some space around the two nearest fire hydrants. I really liked the phone reminders to do that, and might have been a little disappointed if someone else had beaten me to it.
I also walked around the house, shaking snow off the poor holly bush that was bent double (and in the process inadvertently unplugging some Christmas lights so that I needed to hunt around in the snow for the other end) and making my snowman ball more visible. I was sorry to say that the snow that's falling now is not the kram kind, so there won't be a second ball.
This last bit meant walking in snow higher than my boots.
I took off my snow-caked jeans right away and put something else on, but the skin of my legs still feels chilled 45 minutes later.
A Salt Hygrometer
19 hours ago
2 comments:
Other than the USA, I don't know of any country where house owners and shopkeepers are required to clear the side walks. It makes such a difference and it must save many bones from being broken.
Dear Empty -
If you are clearing from Nemo, we must be in the same neck of the woods. Let's guess: where I am, we got 34 inches and were snowed in for 5 days because the city streets were too narrow/ dense/ filled with cars for the city to plow most effectively. (Plus, there was no place to put all the snow.) Cherie
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