So yesterday I shoveled the driveway.
I just want to know why, when there is this much snow on the garage roof...
there is *this* much snow on the gate, and more yet on the driveway!
Now this is a large person (6'4"), but still. Note the gate latch, at the usual height for doorknobish stuff, just barely visible behind the snow, just to the right of the highest point of the snow.
Why *is* it that the snow is always deepest where it is the most work to get rid of (as we don't want to stack it right against our house, which is what we'd be doing if we put it on the other side of the driveway)?
I'm convinced it's one of those buttered-side-down things.
Hoiking it up higher than my waist to toss it off the driveway was ... strenuous.
But it's odd -- I have said multiple times that exercise does not make me feel better, but exercise such as this, in cold temps, actually does seem to make me feel better. After. And I don't mind it during.............
What was our snowy task for today? DH moved the minivan off the street into the driveway in the morning, so that it would not get plowed in when the plows eventually showed up.
This afternoon, you can see that the plows have been by -- chunks of dirty snow on top of the clean....
Oh, look, it's our friend Mr. Salt Truck, coming by after his friends, the plows, have done their work.
Ok, back to the effects of said plows -- I don't know how well you can see, but this is the result of the plows' (they come in pairs) passage at the end of the driveway.
Several inches deep, hunks of ice and packed snow. Doesn't look like much, but required 10 minutes or so by two people with shovels to move it. One with a snow shovel, and one with a garden spade, to cut through the compacted snow/ice and get it loose for removal.
To take our minds off the labor, some random snowy pics.
Look, it's the crows. Dozens of them flew over in the brief time I was watching. It didn't look like they'd be spending tonight in our neighborhood.
This guy *will* be spending the night in our neighborhood.
I didn't notice this cardinal nest, presumably his (and now heaped with snow), before the last week or so. If it is new, it seems a bit ... premature. But I suppose, if you haven't got anything better to do in the off-season, a little renovation (not to say new construction) can't hurt....
I took a bunch of pics of an excellent grapevine tendril, but all of them were blurry. We'll have to content ourselves with these boxwood berries. These are an inky purple....
I just love the macro focus -- who knew the little stem was fuzzy?
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4 comments:
I think you're right about the buttered-side-down thing...that would definitely explain it and I've definitely noticed the difference in depth with snow locations....
I just LOVE those red cardinals!!
It is ALWAYS deepest on the driveway, and especially the part of the driveway where we have to move all of it to the other side of the driveway.
It's a relief to get past the house, where we cut a swath down the middle and then put the sides on either side, rather than having to put all of it on one side.
And, of course, once we get past the house, it's not as deep......
I love cardinals, too. Talk about a jolt of color in a monochromatic landscape! :-)
We don't have cardinals. How beautiful.
But we don't have the nasty yucky snow either.
They really are gorgeous. Shy, not surprisingly, given how visible they are.... And touchingly loyal -- you almost always see them in pairs.
As for the snow -- a good thing we all get to choose where we live. I'd rather have snow than forest fires.... :-)
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