white christmas
2009-Dec-25, Friday 12:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellowtiggerI just spent about 2 hours shoveling snow, and I'm still not done. This is the kind of snow that teaches you how glaciers form. It's wet, thick, and very heavy. Yes, glaciers can wear down mountains under their sliding weight.
It's not so much a matter of shoveling, really. Shoveling the walkways is easy. Slide, lift, dump. Easy. The trouble, however, is that the driveway here is boxed in. There's no place to dump the snow. The only solution is to slide, lift, haul to the backyard, throw far enough away from the walkway that the pile doesn't further box us in. The pile is taller than I am now.
I still haven't moved enough snow for me to get my truck out (pictured on the left). But they also haven't plowed the alleyway yet, and that's going to move a lot of snow around. Actually, they haven't plowed the street recently either. I think I'll wait until they do the alley before I finish clearing off the incline leading to the driveway.
Buses are operating on Sunday schedules, which means you can sacrifice the whole day to transportation if you want to go anywhere. Better than doing without travel at all, I suppose. I'm supposed to attend a Bear christmas dinner in downtown Minneapolis tomorrow. I think I'll consider taking the bus so I don't have to get my truck out on these roads until Monday afternoon for work.
It's not so much a matter of shoveling, really. Shoveling the walkways is easy. Slide, lift, dump. Easy. The trouble, however, is that the driveway here is boxed in. There's no place to dump the snow. The only solution is to slide, lift, haul to the backyard, throw far enough away from the walkway that the pile doesn't further box us in. The pile is taller than I am now.
I still haven't moved enough snow for me to get my truck out (pictured on the left). But they also haven't plowed the alleyway yet, and that's going to move a lot of snow around. Actually, they haven't plowed the street recently either. I think I'll wait until they do the alley before I finish clearing off the incline leading to the driveway.
Buses are operating on Sunday schedules, which means you can sacrifice the whole day to transportation if you want to go anywhere. Better than doing without travel at all, I suppose. I'm supposed to attend a Bear christmas dinner in downtown Minneapolis tomorrow. I think I'll consider taking the bus so I don't have to get my truck out on these roads until Monday afternoon for work.
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