Arnold D. Cribari posted:Balshis posted:Last night, while the snow was still falling, I had time to work on trains. This morning, with a foot of soggy crud on the ground and everything in town closed, a large part of my day will be devoted to clearing our driveway and our neighbors'.
I just did my driveway. Please take your time when shoveling snow, and do a little at a time.
Thank you, Arnold. Fortunately, I have a snow blower, and I don't have to do much shoveling. But this particular snow was among the worst I've seen -- around a foot of it, heavy, wet, sticky and very difficult to handle. Even my 10hp blower kept getting bogged down in the mucky stuff.
My neighbor is disabled, and I always do his driveway, too. And just to make things more fun, the blower ran out of gas before I was half done, necessitating a walk back to my garage for the gas can so I could fuel up again. And restarting a 10hp engine with a pull-rope is no fun.
Anyway, I began at around 11:00, and it was 1:30 till it was all finished. Say, d'you think maybe I should have gotten my #53 D&RG snowplow out there to speed things up? I always think of these things too late!
--John
