Anybody want some snow?
And yes, that green thing in the middle that's poking through is my paper box. Four inches more and you wouldn't see it.
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No thanks! It's pretty but getting too old to shovel and drive in it. One of the main reasons we moved further south.
I don't blame you. A lot of people around here end up moving down south when they retire. My Aunt and Uncle did.
We used to have a neighbor that would plow out both my folks' and my driveways with their tractor, but he's been working away a lot, so he's not around these days to do it. It was sort of a "thank you" for my folks letting the neighbors use a piece of land for their horses during the summer months. Gotta love country neighbors. :)
And worse, my folks' snowblower hasn't worked in about four years, and they keep forgetting to get it repaired until it's too late, though neither my stepfather, nor myself, are in any physical condition to blow out our driveways. His shoulders and my back. I could probably do a path, but that's about it. Still, a path would be nice.
When I was a kid my grandfather had this old lawn/garden tractor that had a couple of attachments. One was a front reel mower, and the other a front snowblower. He had another riding mower for the lawn, as the reel mower was old and didn't cut very well, but the snowblower attachment worked perfectly. The greatest thing was that he had this canvas cover with a framework that he could attach to the tractor. It had plastic "windows" and a working door to get in and out. So, in the winter you'd be inside this makeshift cab while snowblowing. It wasn't heated or anything, and it wasn't sealed around the bottom edges, but it kept the wind out, for the most part. It was pretty darn neat. I so wish I had something like that now. Heck, if I had a small tractor with a heated cab I would love going out and plowing or snowblowing the driveways. It would be fun. :)
