"I want a snowblower for Christmas..."

Ugh. Yuck. Blech!! Shoveling sucks! I can't even describe how much it sucks. Entirely. I shoveled a 3 foot wide path from my back door, across the deck, down the steps and onto the driveway. Had to come inside and change my fleece jacket because the buttons weren't staying buttoned. Blew my nose 3 times, because you know, the 20 degree temperature mixed with the whatever-mile-an-hour winds make the nose runny. Put on my pullover fleece with the hood, yeah, that's better...so I go back outside and start to shovel a path down the driveway toward the road. I think I got about, oh, maybe 15 feet? Back is killing me, so I yell to Beau (who started out the front door and went toward the street walk) "I gotta go in and rest a bit, back is hurting too much!" I went in the back door, he went in the front, then yells for me to please get him something to stand on so the rug won't get all wet. His jeans were wet and snowy up to his knees! My jeans were damp around the bottom inch maybe. Somebody was playing in the snow!

So this is rest time. We were lucky enough to have our neighbor next door snow-blow across the front street walk again for us. When I heard his blower starting up at 7:30 a.m. I rolled over in bed and thought 'EGAD, man! It's fargin' SATURDAY, where DO you have to be (and will you get me a vanilla chai if you're goin' out??!!)', but my next thought was, 'I will ignore the noise and forgive you the early hour if you remove the snow from in front of our house, thankyouverymuch.' And he did. He's kind of a grumpy looking old guy, when I see him and say hello, he sort of just nods his head at me. But he takes care of us when there's a heavy snow, so for that I'm very grateful.

Anyway. I guess it's time to get out there again and shovel some more, maybe get the cars cleaned off. I've got my car here and my mom's, because my car battery was dead for a while. Now lucky mom doesn't have to clean off her car! We got quite a bit of powdery snow, maybe 9-10 inches, but it's still heavy for me.

Another storm is heading our way tonight, I haven't heard the latest forecast, but it's definitely going to be enough to have to shovel again. How's the weather where you are? Martha, you can just nevermind answering this one, I'm sure you took your beach walk this morning!? Can I come live with you? :)