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The January blizzard of 2022 has left town. Some parts of my state got the everloving shit kicked out of them - hurricane force winds - over three feet of snow.. power outages... Yikes! Our little corner of the state got off lightly by comparison with about twelve inches of powder snow and no power outages. An added bonus - the prevailing Northerly winds kept the roofs free of snow... This is the first time in many years that my faithful but ugly snow blower "Beast" was not around to help. He finally gave up the ghost after a couple decades of faithful service. Since we thought we might be getting over two feet of snow, we signed up for a plow service. It was nice in theory, but less than good in practice. The owner of the plow service apparently had too many customers to help us out in a timely fashion and didn't get around to clearing our driveway.. I mean - he did a half-assed pass during the storm, but then never made it back to really clear the snow away. Doff texted the plow dude a couple times and got back somewhat vague answers.. I suggested that she tell the plow guy that she lives with a old fuck who is one ham sandwich away from a coronary and wouldn't it be a shame if he keeled over in the front driveway trying to shovel... Doff declined to pass along my message... pffft. So as it turned out, Doff and I got our winter duds on after supper (vegan mexican lentils over jasmin rice) and cleared both driveways.. It was brisk and satisfying work. I felt so virtuous getting exercise, clearing the driveways, and (AND) saving the planet from snow blower exhaust.. (just kidding about that last bit - the planet is fucked - but it's fun to pretend otherwise...) |
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