Saturday, December 4, 2010

Nipper's Nook

Nipper's Nook


Snow Day

Posted: 03 Dec 2010 07:18 PM PST


Actually, for the first time in many years, the schools closed for the day (Wednesday). Anyhow, here are the rest of the snow pictures that I took. We had roughly 7+ inches on the ground and when I went out to shovel it (we don't have a snow blower, since it is rare we get this much snow at one time), I quickly discovered that it was a wet, slushy-type of snow; that means more work. Heavy work. Not a good thing, especially for someone lazy like me.

Well, as I said, when I went outside to shovel, I saw out neighbor already shoveling our section of the frontage road. When I got closer, I saw why: he couldn't get his truck onto it. So, the fun began. Together, we were able to shovel to his house and then onto ours. In the process, I helped dig his wife's car out of the snow and he kindly dug a path up our driveway to our garage. In all, it took a total of just over three hours (including breaks) to finish (with an hour and a half just for our driveway). Oh, and so I can have an excuse to include a shameless plug, if you have not seen the photos from the previous evening, you can see them here in the post titled, Let it Snow...Let it Snow...Let it Snow Now, onto the show...


The next day...

photo of snow covered trash cans


Here's our retaining wall. I took this one, because all the stones are covered...

photo of snow covered retaining wall and garden



Here are Brutus and Killer again...

photo of snow covered flamingos




Here we are after I shoveled...

photo of shoveled driveway




Finally, you can see a portion of the frontage road. When I got to the point where we could actually get into the driveway(we are the last house), I said the heck with it...

photo of shoveled driveway and road

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