He got pretty close to the door, so there wasn't much for me to clear.
Luckily, I did get my yearly shot of the blower in action. They more often than not come in the middle of the night or when I am not aware. The process is so quick that unless I happen to there with camera at the ready, they will be done and gone before I can react, even if I suddenly realize that they are there.
They took a little longer to get to the kids place, so we did a little messaging with them assuring them that the plow would be there soon. I often just speak my messages on the phone rather than type, especially if I am sitting down to watch tv. Note the spelling of plough/plow.
yes, the plough will comeThat surprised me. While I use the British our and er endings, and while I dutifully double the consonants, I am a plow dude and not a plough guy. When I tried to explain this to the kids . . . well you'll see.
I just noticed that when I dictated plow, I got the proper CANADIAN British version not the American version. But this time when telling you that I got the American version.Poor spellcheck. Poor me. Poor little Canadians are we.
I go out periodically to push the snow away from the garage and off the walk. I push it a little way down the driveway, for the plough/plow to blow off the driveway and onto the lawn. I took some night pictures that show the pile near the garage. I know it doesn't seem like that much, but recall that the driveway had already been cleared once already.
I did one final pushing at 11. Snow was no longer falling, and the driveway is clear this morning. They will return one more time if the town plows us in, but the plan to meet the boys for coffee this morning should come to fruition. I see that JJ gets another day off, and Danica doesn’t have classes on Fridays this semester. Shauna will still have her drive, but she'll be fine.
Glad it was an easy task. Nice pictures!
ReplyDeleteThat is some kind of snow blower/plow plough!!! It is good that you have that as a service, it would suck to try and shovel all of that.
ReplyDeleteI am glad that you survived your storm. I never really thought about it, but I guess I always thought of 'ploughing' as a farmer in his field and plowing as snow removal. But what do I know...I am but a hapless American with a lunatic for president.
ReplyDeleteYour snow and neighborhood looks nice. I get into the "our" spelling for certain things, too. I think I read too many Brit books!
ReplyDeleteThe snow guys in our neighborhood use blades attached to the front of pickups so don't do nearly as good of job. In fact, every year, the guy blading my neighbor's driveway across the street, shoves all their snow onto my lawn and scrapes off all the grass in that one spot. I have thought about installing a concrete curb but it seems like too much work and it is actually on the knob across the ditch that I never see unless I am mowing it.
ReplyDeleteHow much snow did you get?
ReplyDeleteWhat pretty white stuff (Not for you, but for us who don't have it now) Interesting about spelling. I figure often that people can figure out what I meant...but sometimes spellcheck does some really weird things...Bob has been thrown in when it's supposed to be Barb, etc.
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