Grrrrrr. I was going to go out today at lunch and dig out my sidewalks -- what with the melt-off over the past two days it was close to manageable, except for the mountains I'd piled on either side of the driveway.
But no, sometime this morning the town sent the plows through again to widen their narrow initial pass on Sunday to the full width of the street, and suddenly I had a) a new plow wall at the end of the driveway, and b) a new and deeper layer of snow boulders over most of the sidewalk. I just came in from digging out the end of the driveway, during which I surveyed the new obstruction. Hell with that. I'll pay the fine if I have to. I'm not throwing out my back twice in one week.
Today was my only real chance. Tonight it goes down below freezing for the first time since the storm, and all that wet snow is going to turn into a single block of sparkly ice.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
But no, sometime this morning the town sent the plows through again to widen their narrow initial pass on Sunday to the full width of the street, and suddenly I had a) a new plow wall at the end of the driveway, and b) a new and deeper layer of snow boulders over most of the sidewalk. I just came in from digging out the end of the driveway, during which I surveyed the new obstruction. Hell with that. I'll pay the fine if I have to. I'm not throwing out my back twice in one week.
Today was my only real chance. Tonight it goes down below freezing for the first time since the storm, and all that wet snow is going to turn into a single block of sparkly ice.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.