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weather and cars and stuff
We had a substantial snowfall on Jan. 25. I shoveled the front walk and steps four times, and the back sidewalk twice, in 24 hours.
Around the 28th (or was it the 1st?), I shoveled a path from the back door to the garage, and from the garage to the back sidewalk, in order to take out the trash, recyclables, and compostables and leave them on top of a snowdrift adjacent to the street behind the house. They didn't get picked up that day, but by the next week my next-door neighbor (whose stuff had also not been picked up) had shoveled out a section of said snowdrift so he could put his trash, recycling, and composting bins on pavement adjecent to the street behind the house, and I put mine in the same bare patch.
On various occasions in the first ten days of February, I did some shoveling around the car, hoping to have it freed by the time we needed to use it. So by Saturday the 14th, when we needed the car to drive to a Recorder Society meeting, the car was not embedded in snow, and indeed the pavement around it was dry. We moved the car for the first time in three weeks. Naturally, by the time we got home, my carefully-shoveled parking space had been occupied by another car, but I found an empty space only two or three spaces away, and grabbed it.
On Sunday the 15th, I finally shoveled out the rest of the path between our house and the next-door neighbor's, so we could walk from the back sidewalk to the front steps without climbing over snowdrifts.
On Sunday night into Monday morning, we got another inch or two of snow. By the time I got up, the front and back sidewalks had both been cleared by neighbors with snow-blowers, so I only had to deal with the front walk, steps, and the path between the houses, which didn't take long. And I was able to move the car back to the space in front of our house.
It's supposed to be relatively warm this week, with highs in the 40's Fahrenheit and a rainfall or two to melt the snow. Then more snow next weekend; it remains to be seen how much will fall, how much will stick.
Around the 28th (or was it the 1st?), I shoveled a path from the back door to the garage, and from the garage to the back sidewalk, in order to take out the trash, recyclables, and compostables and leave them on top of a snowdrift adjacent to the street behind the house. They didn't get picked up that day, but by the next week my next-door neighbor (whose stuff had also not been picked up) had shoveled out a section of said snowdrift so he could put his trash, recycling, and composting bins on pavement adjecent to the street behind the house, and I put mine in the same bare patch.
On various occasions in the first ten days of February, I did some shoveling around the car, hoping to have it freed by the time we needed to use it. So by Saturday the 14th, when we needed the car to drive to a Recorder Society meeting, the car was not embedded in snow, and indeed the pavement around it was dry. We moved the car for the first time in three weeks. Naturally, by the time we got home, my carefully-shoveled parking space had been occupied by another car, but I found an empty space only two or three spaces away, and grabbed it.
On Sunday the 15th, I finally shoveled out the rest of the path between our house and the next-door neighbor's, so we could walk from the back sidewalk to the front steps without climbing over snowdrifts.
On Sunday night into Monday morning, we got another inch or two of snow. By the time I got up, the front and back sidewalks had both been cleared by neighbors with snow-blowers, so I only had to deal with the front walk, steps, and the path between the houses, which didn't take long. And I was able to move the car back to the space in front of our house.
It's supposed to be relatively warm this week, with highs in the 40's Fahrenheit and a rainfall or two to melt the snow. Then more snow next weekend; it remains to be seen how much will fall, how much will stick.