Snow Day...
I think this pretty much qualifies as a blizzard. The snow is STILL coming down, having started sometime last night. I know it was snowing pretty good around 3am. I think we've gotten at LEAST a foot of snow, which we've had to try and clear off the walk and the steps, and dig our car out of. I came in a few minutes ago from the second round of 'shovel-it-out' and my arms still feel like jelly. I think the major problem is that I am both ill-equipped (I have a shovel designed primarily for pushing and a job that's mostly lifting) and out of shape (this is my own fault and I need to get back to doing WiiFit).
I managed to succeed in getting the entire walkway from the door to the driveway shoveled out and widened (when Archi originally shoveled it out he made a path about one shovel wide, I went back and shoveled at least another shovel-width from the sides of that path). I think I cleared off about the top step and a half of the granite steps in front of the house before I decided it looked a little too dangerous and that I'd come back to it later. I didn't get very far at trying to shovel out the car, not with the neighbor's SUV parked in the next spot over--there just wasn't much room to maneuver! So after a little bit, I gave up and came back inside, rather than throw myself to the ground and let the snow cover me up, as I considered doing several times. Archi made me hot cocca and assured me that I "did good" even though I really don't feel like I actually did much at all.
We still need to clear the front steps if we want to get our mail--not that I really blame the mailman for refusing to climb those perilous steps when they're covered in foot-deep snow that may or may not be hiding ice. At the very least I think we need to get proper snow-clearing equipment.
Next year we're either getting a snowblower or paying someone ELSE to shovel the snow. And we won't be living here, where the landlady doesn't pay for snow removal and we have to do it all ourselves--and we're the only ones who do. Our upstairs neighbors are older ladies who can't manage to clear the walk, and the girls in the next apartment never do more than what they absolutely have to--Archi and I won't bother to shovel the walkway up to their door, we only do the part from the porch door that leads to 3 of the apartments (including ours) to the driveway.
Archi is clearing the steps right now, which kind of worries me, as they're pretty steep steps and I'm not exactly comefortable with them in CLEAR weather, let alone covered in snow. Every time i go down them I make sure to cling to the handrail so I don't kill myself if I slip. Dangerous steps...
I managed to succeed in getting the entire walkway from the door to the driveway shoveled out and widened (when Archi originally shoveled it out he made a path about one shovel wide, I went back and shoveled at least another shovel-width from the sides of that path). I think I cleared off about the top step and a half of the granite steps in front of the house before I decided it looked a little too dangerous and that I'd come back to it later. I didn't get very far at trying to shovel out the car, not with the neighbor's SUV parked in the next spot over--there just wasn't much room to maneuver! So after a little bit, I gave up and came back inside, rather than throw myself to the ground and let the snow cover me up, as I considered doing several times. Archi made me hot cocca and assured me that I "did good" even though I really don't feel like I actually did much at all.
We still need to clear the front steps if we want to get our mail--not that I really blame the mailman for refusing to climb those perilous steps when they're covered in foot-deep snow that may or may not be hiding ice. At the very least I think we need to get proper snow-clearing equipment.
Next year we're either getting a snowblower or paying someone ELSE to shovel the snow. And we won't be living here, where the landlady doesn't pay for snow removal and we have to do it all ourselves--and we're the only ones who do. Our upstairs neighbors are older ladies who can't manage to clear the walk, and the girls in the next apartment never do more than what they absolutely have to--Archi and I won't bother to shovel the walkway up to their door, we only do the part from the porch door that leads to 3 of the apartments (including ours) to the driveway.
Archi is clearing the steps right now, which kind of worries me, as they're pretty steep steps and I'm not exactly comefortable with them in CLEAR weather, let alone covered in snow. Every time i go down them I make sure to cling to the handrail so I don't kill myself if I slip. Dangerous steps...