January 7

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Just in case anyone was wondering, my final and considered opinion is that this is completely and utterly unnecessary.  Not to mention totally undesirable.

Sunrise, through the frost on the window.

Having shoveled YET AGAIN (from so much blowing, overnight, rather than from new snow), I show you a pile of the snow we removed from our driveway.  That fence is 6' tall.

While I understand why people might put all of this ugly stuff where they don't usually see it, I'm not finding it friendly that they put it where *I* have to see it.  I had been thinking that planting some shrubs between us and this ugly mess might be a good idea, but moving all of this snow has reminded me that I need space to be empty...........



Here's something else annoying -- the plows go by, making the road safe for people who do NOT live here, and who drive FAR too fast on our small road, while filling the ends of our driveways with multiple feet of heavy and compacted snow.  We were "done" shoveling, until the plows went by.  Then we had a lot more work to do.

Note also that the plows have thrown the snow so far that we all had to re-do our sidewalks.

This is not an insignificant amount of snow.

Several inches.  It is our obligation, theoretically, to keep the sidewalks bare.  And yet the city goes zooming by, doing this to us............................................  For the benefit of people who do not live here, so they can go too fast on our little residential street.

Feh.



People who live on corners are obligated to keep the curb cuts clear.  Even though the city plows fill them to a depth of over 2' *after* they've already been shoveled out.  This is just Wrong.

Ok.  Cleansing breath..............................



I'm not sure I've ever seen our street without a single parked car.  No parked cars, and all that snow.  It looks really different from usual!

Later.  Looking out the windows.

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