We have the best neighbour!
It snowed a fair bit last night and today, and there was wind the whole time. Early this afternoon I did a tiny bit of shoveling, just to clear a path from the front door to the edge of the hill, where we are dumping some of the snow with intent to make the hill taller and thus better for sledding (though we still need to make or acquire something resembling sleds), and planned to head back out later in the day to get the driveway, since it was still coming down and still blowing, too. Therefore I went back outside a little before 5pm to start shoveling, and discovered our next door neighbour already out there, using his snow-blower in our driveway! I went over and gave him many enthusiastic "Tack så mycket!!!"'s and then I started shoveling a path to the shed. Before I managed to finish that he had done all of the half of the driveway that leads towards his side and all of the parking area. Then I used the shovel to get the other half of the driveway, so that we can do loops if we feel like it. There was enough snow that just doing half of the area took me fully 2 hours (my exercise log loves me today!), so I am extremely grateful for the kindness of our neighbor, and will have to think of something nice we can do for him.