[Nfbmt] orientation & snow shoveling of sidewalks

[Dan Burke]

I love shoveling the walks.  In fact, at my home in Missoula I always
felt a little cheated when one of the retired neighbors cleaned my
front walk with his snow blower.  Actually, each year after his
retirement his snow machine got bigger and bigger until he had a
little tractor and would do his entire side of the street, my side of
the street, and sometimes around the other block as well.  He never
asked if I wanted him to, probably just assumed he was doing me a
favor.  But I was always disappointed when he got to it at 6:30 in the
morning and I was still getting out of the shower.

So, my strategy for shoveling the walks is to get out there early.
Instead of doing long passes from one end of the sidewalk to the
other, I do short swipes from the curb to the grass, where I dump the
shovels-full of snow.  That way, it's easier to ensure that I get all
the snow and don't leave long strips in the middle of the sidewalk.

Now is snowed a bit last night and continues to snow in the Denver
area.  I confess, though, that I didn't get out to shovel early today
- at all so far since I'm at work.  And this year there is a new
wrinkle that I didn't have in Missoula.  It's called a driveway.  I'll
get back to you about that later.

It was 7 degrees this morning, and may get as high as ten this
afternoon.  Stay warm!
Dan

On 12/3/13, d m gina <dmgina at samobile.net> wrote:
> I have a sidewalk broom,
> learned about it threw a friend on serotek.
> I don't remember where I got it though sense it has been with us for
> quite some time.
> It is wide from left to rite.
> Almost reminds me of what is used on the windows of a car.
> Except a broom.
>
> Original message:
>> 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
>
>
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