Love waking up at 730 on a weekend when my alarm is set for 930!

Yay for child labor!!

Or, youthful self starters!

Was putting birdseed out and a throng of kids with shovels is out and about.

"You looking for work?!"

"Sure!"

It's been coming down so fast the past couple hours, even three passes isn't keeping up well - one more pass from some enthusiastic kids will definitely help. And worth every penny.

I'd feel bad about having kids do my work if I'd hadn't been doing it all morning, too.

The freezing rain has yet to arrive, which is good, but it means things are still falling from the sky that require shoveling.

OMG, i just looked and the kids did the whole driveway - I guess they didn't hear me when I said, "Just a path up the side is fine, we're not going anywhere"

They got an extra $20 for that.

Every year, there is someone bitching on next door that there aren't any kids that want to shovel snow - really it's just a factor of shifting demographics, but also - tweens & teens aren't your damn personal labor force.

Still so very glad those kids came around as I was looking at my work having immediately been covered back up, LOL.

And, this is why I keep cash on hand at all times, and a reminder that I needed the replacement debit card on one of my accounts, and that is now taken care of.

Thanks kids!

@cafechatnoir I'm reading all your snow-shoveling posts and realizing that although I grew up up in Michigan, where we certainly got snow, I have no memory of the shoveling. Who did it in my family? Me? My parents? Neighborhood kids? No memory at all.

Still so very glad those kids came around as I was looking at my work having immediately been covered back up, LOL.

And, this is why I keep cash on hand at all times, and a reminder that I needed the replacement debit card on one of my accounts, and that is now taken care of.

Thanks kids!

OK, the fourth and final for me pass is done, which neatly coincided with the second battery running out on the shovel and the freezing rain starting.

It's as good as it's gonna get I think - I went back out and put ice melt down and I am calling it a day.

OH! If you have those ice melt jugs with the shaker tops - keep an empty one on hand - when you have to open a new one, just pour what you need in the old one so you're not trying to lug around 10 pounds of ice melt.

And Sean has been fussing at me all morning.

GIRL. It is the WEEKEND. You are supposed to be on the couch with ME.

He is happy I'm done.

@jeridansky

I mean, when you're little, it doesn't matter, it just magically happens!

I remember my Mom shoveling snow because of this absolutely garish green camo-ish jacket with orange bits all over it that she would wear. (It still hangs in the coat closet, LOL.)

I'm sure my Dad did it when he wasn't deployed, but I also have zero memory of that.

Here is the pattern on the coat - you can see why it is seared into my memory. And retinas.

@cafechatnoir Oof! Memorable, and not in a good way.

It's very hard to explain to a cat, "I have to put the big jacket on and go out in the cold and move white stuff from here to there, and it's important that it gets done."

Zero sympathy from him for the dog walkers in the neighborhood.

I took a nap, woke up and looked out and all my outside work is gone.

Seems the sleet started up again and dumped another inch or so.

It's little bro's turn.

All the earlier work was not in vain at least - you'd need a flamethrower if you'd let it go all day.

@cafechatnoir I'm glad you have a brother to share shoveling duties with.

And Sean has been fussing at me all morning.

GIRL. It is the WEEKEND. You are supposed to be on the couch with ME.

He is happy I'm done.

I took a nap, woke up and looked out and all my outside work is gone.

Seems the sleet started up again and dumped another inch or so.

It's little bro's turn.

All the earlier work was not in vain at least - you'd need a flamethrower if you'd let it go all day.

So, all told I'd say we got about 5 inches of snow and another 3ish inches of sleet/snow mix. (The freezing rain I though was supposed to be for the rest of the day apparently switched back to sleet/snow as soon as I went back inside, LOL.)

Been watching the power outage map, and there have only been 2 small outages within a few miles of here and they're already resolved. My brother VERY SMARTLY pointed out that our power has held thanks to the umpteen power banks I charged up.

So, all told I'd say we got about 5 inches of snow and another 3ish inches of sleet/snow mix. (The freezing rain I though was supposed to be for the rest of the day apparently switched back to sleet/snow as soon as I went back inside, LOL.)

Been watching the power outage map, and there have only been 2 small outages within a few miles of here and they're already resolved. My brother VERY SMARTLY pointed out that our power has held thanks to the umpteen power banks I charged up.