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    skiing to work- awesome!

    Lusitania- hee hee. That doesn't look like near the tank that I drove (a 1982 Chevy Caprice). Now THAT was a boat.
    I never thought of having to teach your kids to drive on the snow- never occurred to me. I grew up in AZ (no snow EVER) and got my first snow lesson when I was 20- and ended up in a ditch.
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    I grew up in PA and all 6 of us had to get more lessons from Dad during the first winter after you got your license. I'm a winter bday, so not a problem for me. But the summer/fall bday siblings, had to go back out with the license and take more lessons from dad. Made us all pretty good snow drivers though.
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    one set of lessons with Dad was enough- I don't know if I could have handled two rounds.
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    The ONLY reason I shoveled out my car and the driveway yesterday was because I thought I'd be going to work today! Had I known my place of employment would be CLOSED today, I would have waited until today to shovel since it will be going up to a balmy 37°F!!

    Sitting with my back against a heating pad,

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    Quote Originally Posted by owlice View Post
    The ONLY reason I shoveled out my car and the driveway yesterday was because I thought I'd be going to work today! Had I known my place of employment would be CLOSED today, I would have waited until today to shovel since it will be going up to a balmy 37°F!!

    Sitting with my back against a heating pad,

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    You were probably better of shoveling yesterday since today it's had an extra day of freezing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by owlice View Post
    I would have waited until today to shovel since it will be going up to a balmy 37°F!!
    Owl
    Oh, no. You did the right thing. At 37 degrees, you get that snow-sticking-to-the-shovel thing. When I started yesterday at 8:00 AM it was fairly easy to shovel. By 1:00 it was sticking to the shovel. I am really sore today too!

    Okay, gotta get some work done today!!!

    Really, I'm signing off.....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ritamarie View Post
    At 37 degrees, you get that snow-sticking-to-the-shovel thing. [snip] By 1:00 it was sticking to the shovel.
    That's what Pam (or spray olive oil) is for -- to keep snow from sticking to the shovel!!

    MDHillSlug, I was thinking an extra day of melting and evaporation would beat the extra day of freezing, perhaps? Most snowfalls, I don't bother to shovel; I just wait for it to melt! My house faces south, so my driveway and front sidewalk get full sun.

    This snowfall... was a little much, and I really did think I'd have to be at work today, sooo.....
    Last edited by owlice; 12-21-2009 at 06:54 AM.

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    Ack, I got my license 6 months after I moved to Florida.
    I learned to drive in the snow when I was 37. Not a good thing .
    Never had an accident, but it did require getting an AWD car and some nice anxiety attacks. Two of the three houses I've lived in here were (are) on big hills.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tri Girl View Post
    one set of lessons with Dad was enough- I don't know if I could have handled two rounds.
    I totally get that- though we all think that our father was a driving instructor in another life. He was born to teach driving! In his regular days, he was quick tempered and impatient. In the car, teaching us, he was the calmest person in the world. He was quite the enigma, my dear old dad.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Possegal View Post
    I totally get that- though we all think that our father was a driving instructor in another life. He was born to teach driving! In his regular days, he was quick tempered and impatient. In the car, teaching us, he was the calmest person in the world. He was quite the enigma, my dear old dad.
    lol.

    Driving lessons with my father was him parking halfway up a gravel hill in a big orange 1977 stick shift no power steering station wagon & my 2 little brothers in the back seat. And telling me to get in and drive... and my little brothers screeching "she's gonna kill us" and falling all over the place everytime the car lurched.

    I think it took me about an hour to get up that hill. It took a while to realize that my legs were too short to actually push the clutch all the way in with the seat all the way forward. From then on, I had to wear platform shoes for driving lessons.

    Poor man had to replace the clutch in that behemouth shortly thereafter. And forced me to help him.

    He left it to the drivers ed instructors to teach me how to drive an automatic.

    I remember carpooling with him in rush hour traffic a couple of times the first year I was driving - he used to sit and count how many cars passed me vs. how many I passed and give me my grade at the end of the ride.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tri Girl View Post
    (a 1982 Chevy Caprice). Now THAT was a boat.
    LOL, yes that WOULD be a boat. My daughter's car is an '92 Oldsmobile Eighty Eight. It's a good car for a new driver! Big enough to offer some protection but new enough to have airbags. It does roll down the road like a boat though. Gas mileage is a killer, but it keeps her close to home.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ritamarie View Post
    My daughter's car is an '92 Oldsmobile Eighty Eight.
    Does she know this song?
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    Just cause I finally got the pics from snowshoeing off my camera:







    I walked across after he plowed the way:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Catriona View Post
    Just cause I finally got the pics from snowshoeing off my camera
    Pretty! Where was that?
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    Quote Originally Posted by MDHillSlug View Post
    Pretty! Where was that?
    It was actually in Burtonsville just off Briggs Cheney Road... There's some woods and a nature center back there with a lot of mountain biking/walking trails.

 

 

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