Two times I shoveled.
The cold white snow keeps falling;
Will it ever end?
I drove up to the northern suburbs yesterday. My friend Carolyn gave a talk in a sort of Catholic mass in Highwood, then I trecked over to Libertyville to see Mom. Then, I drove down to Glencoe to see my Carolyn.
She and I were yacking and yacking. I crocheted a pair of slippers, and planned to leave when the second was finished. Then Carolyn’s Mom came in and said, “Uhmm…. I just heard a winter storm advisory. You’d better leave before the storm hits.”
So, I folded up the slipper, bundled up and headed out. There were a few flurries in Glencoe; snow was falling briskly as I approached Naperville. When I arrived home, parked, grabbed a snow shovel and cleared about 2″ of powder. I cleared 2″ inches at 4 pm.
I just heard Jim arrive home… he’s shoveling. Gotta go help.
I’ll finish the slipper tonight. I guess I’ll post the pattern tomorrow. I told Carolyn, I would name this design “The $1.67 slipper.”
Sell the slippers to the Governor for a cool million and he’ll get off with a crazy rap
These slippers are too small for Blago. Maybe his wife would want them? She swears like a sailor, and I suspect the “Red Heart Super Saver” yarn is all she will be able to afford after hubby ends up in what my husband and I like to call “the former governor’s mansion.” 🙂
No one out west here
Has a snow shovel to use
We need to rethink
It turns out sadly
That a lawnmower will not
clear snow from the drive
Last fall’s leaf blowers
can be rather effective
if snow is powder.
A question for all
when this stuff finally melts
where does the white go
If you hate to shovel snow try using a leaf blower. I found out a few years back if you go out after about every inch has fallen and blow it off you never have to break a sweat. Yes, you have to go out several times, but it beats a one time hour of hard shoveling.
One rule… never step on the snow in an area you are going to blow off, it packs it down and it will not blow in that spot.
Vinnster–
When it’s powder, a leaf blower works.
Shoveling is not that bad when the snow is powdery either. We have three shovels: 1) The “snow moving” shovel with a deep bucket, 2) The “finishing shovel” which is flatter and has a sharper edge and 3) the intermediate one!
I need to go look to see if I need to shovel again!
Several years ago my wife bought an electric snowblower to clear our driveway (as I recall I’d had some back spasms after clearing 1′ of snow that year). It had the desired effect of no significant snow for two years and the consequent teasing! However, we ultimately did have significant snow and it did a great job so I’m a fan. This week has been rather bizarre in NJ Monday reached ~65ºF (the second time in a week) and I was obliged to participate in clearing off the remaining leaves from the yard etc., Tuesday the max was about 35ºF and a light covering of snow! A bit more snow and it would have been leaf blower to snowblower in 24 hrs.
Snow blowers are dangerous. I inherited one from my parents and found myself clearing most of my older neighbors drives! I wound up spending the same amount of time that it took to my own yard so there is some sort of conservation of energy involved.
Nostalgia for White Ends
When Snow Falls
And Backs Ache.
Just a thought — White Christmas was written against the backdrop of the temperatures and winters of the ’30s. People then dreamed for one “just like the ones I used to know.” Then came the ’50s. Now, many are getting what people were dreaming about in the ’30s and, unless they are skiers, they complain. If warming is true, snow birds would no longer head south; instead, as Lubos has pointed out, those whose ancestors moved south would head north. Will Michigan thus enjoy an economic rebound? So might we call those future immigrants maize and blue birds?
Phil–
Our weather has been oscillating wildly too. It was frigid, the temperature soared, and them plunged. We don’t have room for a snowblower. Jim’s table saw, compressor and other handy man stuff is in there!
Lucky for me, my kind neighbor actually likes to run his snowblower. Half the time, he dashes over and does our driveway and that of about 5 other neighbors! (When he was ill, I shoveled the end of his driveway last year.)
Or you can get a land lord that shovels
I cleared the driveway
Then watched the big plow come through
And erased my work.
All was dull and gray
Snow comes dancing in the wind
All is white again
those red hot slippers
would melt the snow
if you could just get them crocheted
Steve– They are finished!
We expect second storm tonight. . .
So give it a couple of hours to build up, then get out there…
And get some photos!!
And dear Lucia, have a happy, snowy Christmas.
The snow that must be
Shoveled twice.
Tendentious twaddle, very nice.
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Every snowflake has
a constructal in its heart;
Paper flakes are fractal