Friday, March 6, 2015

Cold work (but we’re still not ready to move back to the land of sand)

This is the un-fun part of snow. Getting rid of the snow so we can get out of the house. We just heard that the kids have another day off of school tomorrow – text message beeped in and there was much cheering - but Brad may have to work, so we went out to clear the driveway.

Honor also tried to get a bit more sledding in, but the snow was too deep! She just sank right into the fluff!

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She helped shovel a little bit…

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I told her she looked too happy, that kids doing chores were supposed to be sad. She couldn’t make a convincing frown!

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Brad brought out the serious tool. Our big yellow snow beast. We ought to come up with a name for it.

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Driving this yellow beast up and down the hill is hard work. It has a mind of it’s own.

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Brad was working up a sweat, but it was still snowing. He ended up with snow melting and re-freezing as ice on his hair, face, glasses, and clothes.

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The snow beast worked well over the gravel part of the drive too.

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It powered up the hill and really kicked the snow way out… he was painting the trees with the thrown snow, way off to the side.

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Total accumulation today? 7.5 inches.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'm incredibly impressed you got the snowblower working. Love Dad