[Nfbmt] orientation & snow shoveling of sidewalks

[Dan Burke]

Well, I don't want the car to flatten the snow on the driveway.
That's going to result in hard packed ice as the week goes on.  I'll
get some of it done when I get home.  A push broom on light, unpacked
snow works great!
Dan


On 12/4/13, d m gina <dmgina at samobile.net> wrote:
> 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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