[Nfbmt] orientation & snow shoveling of sidewalks

[d m gina]

Yes those driveways can be a challenge.
Just to get a car to flatten the snow, that helps.

Original message:
> 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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