[Nfbmt] orientation & snow shoveling of sidewalks

[James Aldrich]

Hi again Rik and all,

You certainly had some good wisdom here.  Dar has used a broom on the 
powdered snow and I think I'd prefer that over the heavy shovel.  Once 
frozen or walked on, this won't work but this technique has its merrits!

Jim


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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