The very light powdery snow that fell all night and throughout this morning let up around 1 PM. Heck, even the sun made a (very) brief appearance. I thought it was done so I donned my boots, gloves and coat and went out to clear the driveway.
I was disappointed to find there was a mere 4 inches on the ground. Thinking that might not make the use of the blower worthwhile, I started with the shovel and cleared half the area in front of the garage in a little less than an hour.
Not long after I started the sun disappeared and a pretty serious snow squall hit. It didn't last long but it gave me an excuse to take a break and ponder my options further.
The squall stopped after 15 minutes and I started the snow thrower. heck, after the plow had gone up the road, I knew some deeper snow was ahead of me. So I wrestled the thrower over the second half of the area in front of the garage, the driveway and the plow-made drift. It took me about an hour. I saved about 30 minutes...maybe.
While I did the drive, Terry did the deck and replenished the bird feeders much to the delight of the juncos, chickadees, nuthatches. etc.
When I finished, Terry produced a cup of welcome hot chocolate and I sat down to the computer. As I type this, it has commenced snowing again. Checking the weather.com radar that damn blue bubble is parked right overhead...again. *sigh*
If this keeps up there may be enough snow on the ground to get out the snowshoes.
3 comments:
I keep telling you guys to send the snow back up here; don't know what the problem is...
I'm still having trouble convincing my girls to shovel the driveway in the middle of a snowstorm. They haven't grasped the "two easy jobs beat one really hard one" concept, yet.
Ahhh I miss the snow. Hot coco never tastes as good as after doing some heavy duty shoveling!
Rev.
That nasty Jet Stream keeps sending it either south or east of here. I see now that Disney World may get some flurries.
Cassie
We have a guest bedroom and a spare shovel you're welcome to use. Plenty of coco too.
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