It's a whole new world outside today.
Yesterday our first snow storm of the season kept school buses off the roads.
I didn't go out at all, preferring to watch the snow fall through the window...
Today we are "cleaning up" - shoveling the snow off the driveway, clearing away the mound left by the snow plow that went down our street early this morning.
I pushed about a foot (30 cm) of snow off the deck... remembering that weather like this causes heart attacks every year as un-fit people suddenly go to work moving pounds - if not tons - of snow...
My 80-year-old neighbor has a pace-maker, but he still insists on using his snow blower. Other neighbors come over to help, but he tries to get it done before they arrive...
Just the other day he apologized for not helping us put up our plastic car shelter - he hadn't been feeling well... He has helped us put it up and take it down every year since we got it. I told him I knew he was supervising us through his window... I'm sure he watched us the whole time, wishing he were outside with us. Like the energizer bunny, he just keeps going - and that's just the way he likes it!
We have to knock the snow off the roof of the car shelter after every snowfall - or it might collapse under the weight of snow.
There! It's all done... till the next snowfall...
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