[Nfbmt] orientation & snow shoveling of sidewalks

[Rik James]

So far, you are all impressing me with so much honesty.

I think more and more about what it just might be like to not have the snow 
to shovel. Age? Maybe? Tired of ice? Sure!
And as I walked around town today there were a number of folks who are quite 
satisfied to leave it all be. Grumble grumble.

And actually you know, as Mr. Aldrich and Mr. Robbins mentioned, about 
neighbor or a relative doing the task. Do you know what happened just this 
afternoon?

Our neighbor across the alley, she asked Karen a question that I have never 
anticipated.
She lives, as I said in a house that faces our alley and so does not have a 
sidewalk.
And she asked Karen, say who shovels your sidewalk? Would you mind if I did 
it sometimes? I really miss it.
She moved here from Chicago a couple years ago.

Now isn't that nice?
I wonder how much she would pay?

We do have another neighbor whow has a big snow blower. Once in a blue 
blizzard he gets it out and if he takes a mind to, and if it is the kind of 
snow that is suitable he has made a pass or two across our sidewalk. It sure 
is a quick job.

Tomorrow I may get a notion to write further about snow shoveling. And 
actually sweeping the snow off of the concrete with a straw broom. I 
actually think if you get on it early and often it is the cat's meow for 
keeping that concrete clean-o. I learned that from a former neighbor here. 
She was almost 90-years-old. And she would be out there with that broom 
about every half hour during the snowstorm.  I kind of was puzzled at it 
back then. Now, I have come to see how right she was about it. Keeping it 
from sticking by getting it up and off before anyone goes and stomps all 
over it.

But I am just strange. Am I not?
I think it is pretty good physical exercise. But you have to keep certain 
posture and breathe, pull from the gut and not from the back. Use your legs. 
Etc. Etc.

And of course if I was coming home at night after a hard day at the salt 
mines, that is a shovel of a different color indeed.

Good day, sports fans.
Rik