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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Like a wet facecloth hitting the side of my face.

Posted by Melanie at 18:11 1 comments It's been snowing all afternoon, time to get out the ski wax

The days leading up to winter really suck, the ground isn’t frozen, the thermometer hovers around zero and it alternately snows and rains. The heavy wet white stuff is awesome for making snowmen and forts, except with both kids gone I’m not into that anymore.

At five AM today I lay in bed listening to it thudding off the roof. Yesterday it was dark when I arrived home. I had a lot to carry so I parked up near the back door, dangerously close to the side of the house. Sure enough, when I went outside, I was forced to shovel the fallen snow away from the car, before I dared try to move it. I was sucessfull but got stuck in the driveway anyway, and I have snow tires on the car!

I’m embarrassed to say I do not know how to use the snow blower. I don’t even know how to turn it on. Last year when we got the thing I resisted all Robert efforts to teach me how to use it. I didn’t want to know how to use it because I didn’t want have to bother wasting my time, when I could be skiing or running, snow blowing the driveway. The back of my mind feebly tried to remind me that Robert is away a lot and if it snows.. However, I firmly squashed my feeble thoughts and forgot all about it until today.

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Nothing makes me ANGRIER than getting stuck in the driveway. But I bet it happens more often to you. I defer to you in all things winter (bowing...)

I don't snowblow either, and for a very convoluted reason. Our blower attaches to our tractor, which has a mower deck attached in the summer. My DH never wants me mowing due to my allergies, and so I've never learned to run the tractor at all. So no snow blowing either. Lame excuse, right? Also, my DH grew up in Upper Michigan and actually enjoys winter. So I wouldn't want to deprive him of the fun. :-)

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