Snow

[Zen]

Not looking forward to this shoveling but here I go...

[pfunk12]

I was really looking forward to shoveling snow this morning. I know...weird. But it's great exercise and it brings back wonderful memories of growing up in northeastern Pennsylvania. However, my nice neighbor insisted that he shovel the huge mound that was behind my car. I kept telling him that he didn't have to but he kept insisting that he doesn't have anything to do all day and he was inside all day yesterday, so gosh darn it, he's going to shovel me out! I did take all the snow off my car (all by myself!) and that was a workout.
None of my neighbors own a shovel so they are all borrowing mine. Hmmm...I could make some money if I really wanted to...

[Crankin]

It's still snowing...
I thought it would be stopping around 11. The sky is kind of brightening up, though. Did some yoga and studied my Spanish, but I am itching to go out. I do want to wait until the snow stops falling, though.
Owlice, why don't you try hiking, skiing, or snow shoeing the trail? You might find it looks different than when you are riding!

[Possegal]

None of my neighbors own a shovel so they are all borrowing mine. Hmmm...I could make some money if I really wanted to...

When I lived in Mississippi for school, people were all very fascinated by the scraper to clean off the windshields. I thought it so funny that no one there had one. Even if you use it once a winter, it is worth the 5.95! I was very popular with my scraper!

ETA Yeah yeah yeah - scraper not scrapper.

[pfunk12]

Some of my neighbors were using a dustpan and brush! I should have taken a photo of that!

When I lived in Mississippi for school, people were all very fascinated by the scrapper to clean off the windshields. I thought it so funny that no one there had one. Even if you use it once a winter, it is worth the 5.95! I was very popular with my scrapper!

[Zen]

I was very popular with my scrapper!

I let it go once but I can't let that slide twice. But it does make for an amusing mental image

I still have a scraper that my parents got when we lived in Alaska. It has the name of some gas station on it.

[HillSlugger]

I'm going to wait a few more hours before I head out to clear off the car.

They still haven't come to plow the parking lot in my courtyard or shovel our sidewalks. It makes sense to wait until they do the lot so I can shovel through the giant ridge of snow they'll leave in front of my car. Besides, my car is parked in the sun so I'd just as soon let it warm up as much as possible before I start to work.

It looked like all the snow from our lot ended up behind my car!

[Ritamarie]

Ugh... 5 hours of shoveling, but I'm done! DH cleared the lane with our backhoe since as previous photo shows our plow wasn't ready for this storm. DH and I both breathed a sigh of relief when the backhoe started. It's not a fan of winter either! I am going to be SO sore tomorrow. I promise, these are my last snow pics!

Love the castle effect on the fence!



Hydrants are frozen. Should have had the heat tape on before now. Carrying water to the barn is oh so fun.

[Zen]

This is as far as I got, i did have to shovel that last little bit where the plows piled the snow.

[Possegal]

During the 96 blizzard - when I finally ventured out to my car (with no shovel as I'd lived in Mississippi for years and then was in an apartment) to see what I could do to get it out, some idiot was shoveling out his car, and piling all the snow he was moving, right in the back of my car. I was livid. I lost it on him. He was such a total arse. Now I was even more doomed without a shovel (and of course there were none to be bought in all the DC area) and stranded in my car parking spot now with about 6 feet of snow. Well the beauty of my tiny little subaru, when the idiot got his car out, I was able to maneuver my little car back and forth and back and forth and back and forth - until I was out of the spot - then I promptly moved it into the spot he had cleared. That being snow behavior that is very much unacceptable under most circumstances - I learned very good snow etiquette growing up in Pittsburgh. But this moron was not deserving of my good behavior.

[Selkie]

What a mess. DH and I walked to the 7-11 to get newspapers (ours weren't delivered today). Futile trip, they were sold out. We were able to have pizza delivered, though!

Our road is impassible--it's a steep hill and has yet to see a plow. It's too deep for anything but a vehicle with a high undercarriage. Our subarus are too low to the ground... When (if) the plow comes though, we'll have to dig out the cars again (we don't have a driveway). Some neighborhood roads were plowed but they are now icy because they weren't salted. Main roads are wet, probably will be black ice tonight if they aren't treated.

Cars parked along the roads that were plowed are really socked in with snow. I'd say more than two feet high banks of it, maybe higher. They will turn into ice walls overnight.

It's cold but very sunny. Some of it is melting. Now they are predicting a "wintry mix" for Thursday. Thank goodness we Federal employees get a half-day holiday Xmas eve and should be home before it starts....

Thinking glass half full: tomorrow is the solstice---the days start getting longer again!

[Zen]

Thinking glass half full: tomorrow is the solstice---the days start getting longer again!

Ninety days until April!

[owlice]

Ritamarie, post all the pics you want! I've enjoyed seeing them.

Owlice, why don't you try hiking, skiing, or snow shoeing the trail? You might find it looks different than when you are riding!

Crankin, I don't have skis or snowshoes, nor boots as high as the snow is deep. Some of the snow will be gone in a couple of days, though, so perhaps I can try a walk on the trail then.

Zen, you're an inspiration. I shoveled the front walk and driveway, cleared my car, and even made a path to my kitchen door so it opens now, yee-haw!

(My whole neighborhood is hilly, so my house is above the roofline of my across-the-street neighbors' house. This means my driveway is a short but steep hill... and I've gotta wonder at the wisdom of parking a car directly opposite my driveway in snowy/icy conditions, especially since there have been times when I've walked outside to find that my car has slid down the hill into the street!)

[jobob]

We were able to have pizza delivered, though!

I laughed out loud at that. Good to see priorities are being maintained.

[Zen]

I shoveled the front walk and driveway, cleared my car, and even made a path to my kitchen door so it opens now, yee-haw!

An inspiration, or a nagging little voice in your head ?