A physical activity I no longer do

[shootingstar]

I only have memories of shovelling several times per week the driveway, etc. when I was a teenager from ages 11 -21 yr. Included chopping the ice, to make things safe, accessible.

We had to do this..mother too busy with housework and father worked evening shift until from 5:00 pm 1:00am...then he had to sleep for a few hrs. in afternoon. He had to get the car into the driveway in early hrs. of the morning.

I don't live in the suburbs, so I don't know if teens regularily shovel snow these days. Or maybe they take pauses to check their ipod..

[Norse]

Shovel snow - yes.
Snowblow - yes.
Battle ice dams - yes.

Rake leaves - no. It's just too much. We live in a neighborhood that is practically a forest. Had to have a service come out 4 times this fall, and each time the yard was coated in leaves. Different trees drop at different times.

[Irulan]

so I don't know if teens regularily shovel snow these days. Or maybe they take pauses to check their ipod..

Nope, at least not that I know of. I grew up in Chicago where it was a regular occurrence to have a teen show up at the front door with a shovel and "shovel your walk for a few bucks?".

You'd think with the dumps we get around here that it would be easy money for an enterprising teen. In twenty years here in the PNW I've not seen it once, even in our biggest snows.