It has been much too long of a winter of white. When will it be over?
For Pete's Sake anyway . . . what does a person expect when they choose
to live in Minnesota, the "land of 10,003 1/2 ice dams?
Sure, I still get out in the deep snow (it snowed another 8 inches again the
other night.) I play in the snow by shoveling off the back deck and the front
walk. I use the long roof rake on the eaves and gutters. And, this morning I
fired up our brand-new, bright red, electric-start, Honda HS520A Snowthrower.
(We call this new machine "Snow Pup the Second" after our over-35-year-old,
red Honda-Snow Pup which breathed its last earlier this week.) We tried to
have it repaired . . . but the shop said too many things were wrong and some
of the needed parts were not even available anymore.
Then I had this brilliant idea to go across the road in front of our house and blow
out the snow drifts from behind our neighbor's cars before they realized it had
snowed so much that they wouldn't be able to get to work. (There was another
reason I plowed our neighbor's driveway . . . Last night, we returned with our
just-purchased snow blower lashed down into our Honda's tiny trunk. Our neighbor
saw us get embarrassingly stuck trying to get into our driveway (with the new
Honda HS520A Snowthrower precariously hanging out of our trunk) -and
promptly came over with his shovel and dug us out.
Even though this new machine is a welcome member in our family . . . we sure
do miss our old Snow Pup.
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