Good things about last night's snow
Last night we had 5" of fluffy snow on top of our dense, frozen snow pack. Happily it is dry and fluffy -- easy to get off the car and easy to shovel. Last night when I got home from knitting I shoveled the driveway and then parked. This morning I went out very early to shovel again. My next door neighbor was just finishing up her driveway (and my sidewalk!) and offered me the use of her snowblower. So I did the driveway, my elderly neighbor's drive and her sidewalk, all in the time I would have spent to shovel out my driveway. I like the snowblower. :)
On my way to work I stopped at our awesome neighborhood hardware store. They've been selling salt as fast as they get in, and so are selling it first-come first-served, no reservations. I tried to buy a bag of salt to be picked up later, but they said they couldn't. Instead they took my name and number and called me 40 minutes later when the truck came in with the salt. The guys at Quality Hardware are working really hard to keep us stocked with the salt we all need -- the owner's retired father drove two pallets of salt up to the door and I got one of those bags. They were really apologetic that they couldn't give me my usual discount because they were paying a premium to get this salt in. No worries.
Oh yeah. Gene, my maintenance guy at work, gave me a snow brush. He says the college kids threw away a bunch of them when they moved out in August and he saved a couple. So now I've got a snow brush to replace the one that's lost somewhere in storage.
I'm doing ok driving in the snow. The car wallows or sways occasionally in soft snow ruts, but I just hang on and keep going, and so far I haven't hit anything, thank God.
On my way to work I stopped at our awesome neighborhood hardware store. They've been selling salt as fast as they get in, and so are selling it first-come first-served, no reservations. I tried to buy a bag of salt to be picked up later, but they said they couldn't. Instead they took my name and number and called me 40 minutes later when the truck came in with the salt. The guys at Quality Hardware are working really hard to keep us stocked with the salt we all need -- the owner's retired father drove two pallets of salt up to the door and I got one of those bags. They were really apologetic that they couldn't give me my usual discount because they were paying a premium to get this salt in. No worries.
Oh yeah. Gene, my maintenance guy at work, gave me a snow brush. He says the college kids threw away a bunch of them when they moved out in August and he saved a couple. So now I've got a snow brush to replace the one that's lost somewhere in storage.
I'm doing ok driving in the snow. The car wallows or sways occasionally in soft snow ruts, but I just hang on and keep going, and so far I haven't hit anything, thank God.